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...Kudos to Father Robert Duryea for not disappearing quietly following the disclosure of his marriage [April 26] and to his parish council for its supportive stand. Only when the Catholic laity realizes that celibacy in itself is not a vocation, and abandons its concept of the parish priest as the local "untouchable", will true religious reform take place...
...think on the basis of what has been done so far. Harvard has to be the favorite but we're gonna row our own race." Ullrich predicted. "And we're a good enough crew to win, " assistant coach Ensign Robert Parish bluntly added. They are indeed psyched sky-high...
...Pacifica, Calif., they called him "Father Bob"-or just plain Bob. He had come to the seaside community just south of San Francisco in 1966 as pastor of the airy, modern church that is the nucleus of St. Peter's Roman Catholic parish. He was a Vatican II priest, no question: folk Masses, a strong parish council, an adult education program on church history and theology. But he was a bit more as well. Last week the rest of the U.S. found out what some of his parishioners have known for months: that the pretty woman and five-year...
...secret slowly rippled out to a widening circle of friends and confidants; eventually many in the parish knew but, amazingly, kept quiet. Only in recent months, apparently, did San Francisco's Archbishop Joseph McGucken get wind of the rumors. He asked Duryea to resign and "disappear quietly." Duryea refused. Last week the Archbishop announced that Duryea had been automatically excommunicated because of his marriage and has been relieved of all his priestly functions...
...favor. The day of McGucken's announcement, 800 parishioners assembled in St. Peter's for a show of support. When Father Bob entered, still in his clerical collar, they gave him a standing ovation. "If there was any way possible," said a formal statement from the parish council, "we would keep him as pastor. Because of our experience with Father Duryea, we feel that the church's rule on celibacy, which deprives our community of ministers such as Father Duryea, should be changed as soon as possible. As a married priest, he has been a very successful...