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Current Adams House senior tutor Berryman said last night he will return to his native England to take up a parish in northcumberland...
...Bought. Meanwhile, the committee became interested in rumors about the propensity of Justice David McCain to rule in favor of Attorney Joseph D. Parish Jr., who actively supported McCain's campaign for the court. In nearly every case he has heard involving Parish clients, McCain voted their way.* One winning client testified that Parish advised her to lie about an illegally unreported $1,000 campaign contribution to McCain. Other evidence indicated that McCain once had an aide investigate grounds for appealing a lower-court decision against a Parish client, then voted for the client when the appeal reached...
Maher's move was apparently prompted by complaints from some Catholics in his diocese-a center of "right-to-life" activity-about a feminist leader named Jan Gleason. She is not only a parish lector but also a NOW member and, most upsetting of all to the antiabortionists, the national head of Catholics for a Free Choice. This group, like NOW, supports a woman's right of personal decision on abortion...
...Patrick's Cathedral, the New York City citadel of Roman Catholicism. After he spoke, hundreds of congregants strode 15 blocks up Fifth Avenue to Sobel's Temple Emanu-El-something of a cathedral for Reform Judaism-to hear Monsignor James Rigney, rector of St. Patrick's parish...
Ostracized in New York, she moved to Baltimore where the Catholic community welcomed her. A few years later, Elizabeth Seton took religious vows and founded the American Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Md. Before she died of tuberculosis in 1821, she had set up a free parish school in Emmitsburg from which the American Catholic parochial school system evolved, established the first American Catholic hospital and watched her tiny order expand to ten houses...