Word: parishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christmas Eve 1962. Faint echoes of Silent Night twinkle through the frosty air. As Father Patrick J. Sullivan of the Roman Catholic film office recalls the scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird...
Along in an unfamiliar country and spurned by their fellow citizens, the Irish turned to the Church. The first immigrants attended Mass in Boston or Charlestown, but within ten years enough Irish lived in Cambridge to support a parish. In 1841, St. John's, the first Roman Catholic church in the city, was dedicated...
Cambridge shrunk slowly through the century, as townsmen asked for the right to open their own churches, instead of making long trips each Sunday. Newton pulled away in 1662, and Lexington opened its own parish in 1696, but Brighton remained a part of Cambridge until 1779. But as it shrunk in size, Cambridge grew in stature, an increasingly wealthy city that also served as the intellectual capital of the 13 colonies...
Cambridge has one of the larger Portuguese communities in New England, with 5-10,000 persons from Portugal or of Portuguese descent. The Portuguese have their own travel agencies, restaurants and department stores--and even a priest at St. Anthony's, the Portuguese parish church. And while the number of immigrants setting in Cambridge has risen over the past ten years, a lot of families have ancestors who settled in Cambridge more than a century...
...started wondering whether seminaries were turning out the sort of graduates congregations actually want. To find out, a research team developed a list of 444 traits (e.g., "prays with laity in small groups" or "expresses own ideas freely") and got preference ratings of their importance from thousands of laymen, parish ministers, professors, senior seminary students and experts on the placement of clergy. The survey sample covered 43 Protestant denominations with 55 million members (plus Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Unitarians and Reform Jews). The most desirable traits: 1) "Open, Affirming Style"; 2) "Caring for Persons under Stress" (with no mention...