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...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
...Awful Changes." McCaffrey indeed patrolled his parish like a cop on the beat. He upbraided the vendors of filthy books, copied down objectionable movie billboards, sent his spotters ("often bums who came to me looking for a job") into the old burlesque houses. His ringing voice assailed vice at hearings held by the New York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers...
...should I?' " McCaffrey also decries "the awful changes in the church-young priests leading civil disobedience, going to jail, burning draft cards." Last week, weary and dismayed, he packed his bags and headed for clean suburban retirement in New Jersey. Taking a final, fretful look at his garish parish, Father McCaffrey sighed: "I suppose I'm an old-fashioned guy with old-fashioned ideas, and the world has passed...
...young Biblical scholar named W.A.R. Goodwin came to serve as pastor at Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church. Over the slow years of his pastorate, he walked much, looked long, thought constantly about the town's past and realized that behind the Victorian storefronts of the day there still survived the stubborn structure of the old town, along with a hard core of dilapidated but still sound colonial houses...
...Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite order, which principally serves Negro parishes. Also a writer, he has recently been serving as assistant pastor of a Baltimore ghetto-area parish...