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...delegates, who came from 117 of the 156 U.S. dioceses, claim that the federation will represent 37,000 of the nation's parish priests. Mostly moderate activists, they chose as president the Rev. Patrick O'Malley, 36, administrator of a ghetto-area parish in Chicago, who insists that the organization "is well within the spirit of Vatican II," meaning specifically the democratic sense of "collegiality" that has developed in the postconciliar church. "The bishop is no longer king," said O'Malley. "We don't have to ask permission to undertake our projects...
...comes to learn to be an honest-to-God person living in dialogue with others." Despite all the yearning for spirituality that may exist in the average American church, it is questionable how many churchgoers can and do live up to this ideal. The stratified irrelevance of the established parish, whether Catholic or Protestant, is a major reason for the growth of what Episcopal Chaplain Malcolm Boyd has dubbed "the underground church"-informal, ad hoc gatherings of Christians who cross over and above denominational lines to celebrate improvised Eucharists in each other's homes, and study Scripture or theology...
...information is often as surprising as it is valuable. In one St. Louis suburban parish, a priest discovered that 60% of his flock still prefer devotions to the Virgin Mary - though some church reformers in recent years have endeavored to de-emphasize the importance of Mary in Catholic ritual. Of the same parishioners, 40% report ed that they went to confession only three or four times a year, and 39% declared that sermons in their church were generally uninteresting. In a Chicago parish, priests were ready to start a public-relations campaign to improve the image of their parochial school...
...Dean, Miller added a new validity and relevance to the study for the parish ministry. The Divinity School is the richer...
Miller took over from Dean Douglas Horton in 1959, soon after a successful endowment drive saved the Divinity School from possible elimination. To an increasingly scholarly school centered on preparing doctoral candidates for teaching, Miller brought a new emphasis on study for the parish ministry...