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...John F. Mahoney, chairman of the English department at the Jesuits' University of Detroit, is one such self-styled "growingly noninstitutional Catholic." Mass, for him, need not be the conventional Sunday service at the parish church down the street; it is just as likely to be an unauthorized, experimental liturgy celebrated by a radical priest-friend in his own living room. Irreverence toward ecclesiastical tradition is common among Uncatholics. They tend to dismiss the veneration of Mary as irrelevant today and refer to the Mass as "the magic show." More seriously, these Catholics ask whether the church needs...
...island of pastoral calm amidst the marketplace. Its outdoor benches are often crowded with secretaries and sightseers, and its cemetery is a favorite lovers' rendezvous. More than that, though, Trinity Church is a powerful, still-active force in U.S. ecclesiastical history. It is the largest parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church, with 3,900 congregants. It is also the wealthiest, with an endowment exceeding $50 million, title to 20 Manhattan office and industrial buildings, and an annual parish income of nearly...
...Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work of the parish and leave civil rights to God. Ironically, Davis and the 400 parishioners of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church are Negroes...
...Parish pressure has forced some ministers to be less open in their advocacy of the Negro cause. In California, virtually every church leader spoke out in 1964 against a referendum to repeal the state's "fair housing" act. The clergymen's advice was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. Today, even though California's Supreme Court has declared the referendum decision unconstitutional, the law is once again being challenged -but far fewer ministers and priests are defending...
...history-two convicted Negro rapists were ordered freed last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The court ruled that Edgar Labat, 43, and Clifton Alton Poret, 37, had been denied fair trial by the all-white jury system of Orleans Parish (then 32% Negro), which had never allowed a single Negro to serve on a criminal jury...