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...change is affecting many other Catholic lay groups. A year ago, Boston's Catholic community noted with interest that Cardinal Gushing gave permission for a parish Holy Name Society to have a non-Catholic speaker on religious matters. Now no permission at all is needed for Boston Catholic groups to invite Protestant or Jewish speakers, and the cardinal himself recently addressed the Masons' Brotherhood Lodge (subject: ecumenism). In St. Louis, some Holy Name Societies sponsor monthly meetings of Catholics and Protestants to discuss theology, with the groups alternating in choosing the topics. Catholic parent-teacher groups...
...been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew's Cathedral, which is only six blocks from the White House and would thus have limited the wedding party's public exposure. (One rationale for not using St. Matthew's, of course, is that it would have evoked...
...necessity, Catholics and Protestants have shared worship facilities on military bases and college campuses, but St. Mark's seems to be the first brand-new city parish that the two faiths have ever jointly sponsored. The moving spirit behind the venture is Waterman, who two years ago helped arrange a merger of his own First Presbyterian Church with a nearby United Church parish. Both churches had rundown plants and declining congregations; even together, they could barely afford the new church that Waterman felt was needed. Scouting around to see if other religious groups might be interested, Waterman eventually persuaded...
...although the ministers have not yet figured out precisely how to divide up Sunday morning. As members of a single Christian community, St. Mark's parishioners will be invited to join regular ecumenical prayer service. And the four ministers will work togther in providing spiritual counseling for the parish, religious education and social-action projects aimed at combatting crime and juvenile delinquency in the neighborhood...
Looking much like a back-country parish priest, Casaroli has several qualities that make him an almost ideal Vatican diplomat: he speaks half a dozen languages, has both a vast fund of patience and a passion for anonymity. Casaroli approaches negotiations by picking and probing for small areas of agreement, hoping to expand them later. If a Red government insists that its constitution prohibits granting preferential treatment to any one religious group, Casaroli suggests that Catholics simply be allowed the spiritual rights available to anyone. If an issue seems certain to lead to dissension, Casaroli will suggest that...