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Currently more than 7,000 congregations in the U.S. have some kind of trained health personnel engaged in neighborhood work. Some are placed by local hospitals, a few are paid, but most volunteer their time. The number of these health workers--or parish nurses, as they are often called--is rapidly growing, as is the number of volunteers who join them and the variety of programs they initiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFFERING A HEALING HAND | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Ferris' funeral was held Saturday in Claremont, N.H. A memorial service will be held in First Parish Church in Weston on September 7, according to Dockery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former SPH Professor Dies | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...muscle bulges. He radiated punitive rage. One morning he hammered a boy to the classroom floor with his fists and left him there with a concussion, the other boys too terrified to intervene. The Jesuits shipped McGonigal off to southern Maryland, to listen to the songbirds in a quieter parish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: PAT'S SCHOOL DAYS WITH THE POPE'S MARINES | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Members of the staff of "Double Take" magazine, many of whom are Harvard graduates, will hold a community reading at the First Parish church on 3 Church Street tonight...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Double Take Mag. Will Host Reading | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

...largest spiritual community in the world," says Ostling. "What other institution could have survived such turbulence over a generation and survived with loyalties largely intact? Our polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues, but the news here is the unshakable lay devotion at parish level." Ostling saw that devotion close up, interviewing would-be priests in Missouri and parishioners in Maryland, and even chatting with Father Greeley in Michigan. Might he pop up in a future Greeley novel? "No, it will not happen," says Ostling modestly, with a laugh. "At least I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Oct. 9, 1995 | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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