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...level, the spirit of ecumenism has produced plenty of talk about interfaith union, but much of the real action is now taking place at the grass roots. In a number of U.S. communities, togetherness has become a reality, as churches of different denominations have cooperated to create new ecumenical parishes. Though it can take any of several forms, the ecumenical parish has behind it a basic conviction that the churches must cast aside their denominational autonomy and pool resources to meet the changing needs of community and religious life...
Most of the nation's ecumenical parishes have been organized in order to serve poverty-plagued urban slum neighborhoods, where shrinking financial resources often make it difficult to maintain separate churches. A case in point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will...
Ecumenical parishes need not necessarily abandon their denominational identity. One of the nation's largest ecclesiastical combines is the Bushwick parish in Brooklyn, where 37 Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have joined "to unite the resources of the Christian community in a concerted attack" on the socioeconomic problems of the poverty-ridden district. Recently they hired a full-time coordinator, Presbyterian Minister John Peterson, to advise member-ministers on programs they might develop. The parish so far has fielded volunteer-manned patrol cars to assist police in curbing crime, organized a child-care program for working mothers...
Marriage of Convenience. Most of the ecumenical parishes are united in service and separate in worship. But cooperation can lead to common prayer. One example is the ecumenical parish created by the uniting of Los Angeles' First Presbyterian Church and the University Methodist Church. This marriage of convenience was born out of desperation in 1965 when the Presbyterians borrowed the Methodist church for worship after their own ancient structure was condemned as unsafe. At first, the two congregations took turns using the Methodist church for worship. Last summer they began holding joint services, and now the ministers...
...poor parish priest," as he likes to call himself, was already gloating over his anticipated new riches. "I'll be the first clergyman in the history of the world to get a gold platter," exulted ostracized Congressman Adam Clayton Powell last week on the Bahamian isle of North Bimini. That hardly amounted to the "fantastic" disclosure promised for his first press conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records...