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...says, "I don't know what I believe any more." The scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what he does put his faith in. He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes. With Gaelic guile he manipulates parish politics from his pulpit. He does not so much preach to his flock as poll it. What his parishioners want to hear, he tells them. He salves the consciences he was pledged to arouse. In the sad coldness of his heart, he knows all this...
DIED. Henry Knox Sherrill, 89, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. from 1947 to 1958 and one of the nation's most vocal advocates of ecumenism; in Boxford, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, Sherrill rose from assistant minister of a Boston parish to Bishop of Massachusetts at 39 and head of the national church at 56. As the first chief of the National Council of Churches of Christ (1950-52) and one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches from 1954 to 1961, he asked, "How can we expect other nations to cooperate when...
...dynamite were discovered in the cathedral moments before he was to celebrate Mass. Last month a right-wing group blew up the Catholic University radio transmitter that carried the archbishop's sermons throughout the country. Undeterred, Romero recorded his homilies on cassette tapes and distributed them to parish priests. "If the defense of human rights is subversive," he often said, "then I am subversive...
Ward 8, Precinct 4--Residents of Cronkhite Hall vote at the Parish House at 3 Church...
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Sunday described the characteristics of dignity before an audience of 600 at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square...