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Many of these parishes have come alive only after having faced up to the specter of death. The Episcopal Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., for example, was founded in 1928 to serve a white, prosperous neighborhood. By 1960, when Father William Wendt, a onetime fighter pilot, took over as rector, the area was 90% Negro and had the highest crime rate in the city; most of St. Stephen's old parishioners had drifted away. Persuading his remaining white communicants to stay and help him rebuild, Wendt junked the traditional parish societies-bridge clubs, ladies...
Boston Brahmins. Practicing brotherhood is not the exclusive province of slum churches. One rich parish with a high sense of social responsibility is the nondenominational Dover Church in a suburb of Boston. Founded in 1762 as a Congregational meeting house, the Dover Church has a quota of New England Brahmins on its membership rolls, and until recently was a classic example of a genteel Christian parish...
Service v. Services. If the church is essentially God's people, why does a parish need a church building at all? The parishioners of Cherry Knolls United Church near Denver do not think they do, and have done surprisingly well without one. Organized into three colonies, the parishioners conduct their worship services in the evenings at congregants' homes. On Sundays, some of the parishioners do show up for services at what they call "Colony House"-the double garage of Pastor S. Macon Cowles's house converted into a chapel. To carry out the mission, parishioners are organized...
...will get no help from the A.F.L.-C.l.O., whose president, Catholic Layman George Meany, scoffed that trade unions are intended to help "those who work for wages and not independent contractors." Autocratic Cardinal McIntyre indicated his displeasure by transferring DuBay from St. John's to a Santa Monica parish as curate, at a $50-a-month cut in salary. With that, DuBay warned that if the cardinal tries to block the union, he will sue His Eminence for violating laws that protect labor organizers. Cardinal McIntyre then suspended him altogether...
...challeng ing the right of bishops to rule, but merely seeking to restore a lost balance in the church between discipline and freedom. "The union is one way that the church can apply its social teachings to itself," he says. The proposal does point up the fact that the parish priest is underprivileged in rights and rewards...