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...images pervade a new 13-part TV series called Religious America, which began two Sundays ago on some 230 PBS stations across the country. The series does not try to be a comprehensive sampling of U.S. religion. Roman Catholicism is represented by a Trappist monastery and a Mexican American parish, mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship...
...priest's most painful trouble comes to a head this month in a face-off with Chicago's lordly John Cardinal Cody. When Greeley tried recently to return part-time to parish work ("I am still very much a neighborhood type of priest"), the cardinal blocked a routine request for his transfer to a parish until Greeley comes to see him. Greeley has not done so, claiming that Cody might use his request for parish duties as a pretext for calling him entirely away from his scholarship and journalism...
...Gotham. According to Father George Thompson, vocations director of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, many New Yorkers see their priests in the Father O'Malley image made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios of weekly bingo games...
...city of Cambridge work crew yesterday began the resurfacing and fencing of both the Harvard plot and an adjacent space along Dewolfe St. owned by St. Paul's Parish, 34 Mount Auburn...
...parish council did not protest when Charley's Place on Bow St., a block away from St. Paul's got its liquor license. Murray said Charley's Place offered to make a donation to St. Paul's just before the parish council discussed the case, but that he refused the money...