Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inviolability of confession because it provides "an emotional outlet for disturbed persons." Murder also provides such an outlet. Do the clerics who defend confession-Catholic and Protestant-truly believe that non-Catholics are more emotionally disturbed for not having the confessional? We can hope not. You quote a pastor as saying that we should be thankful "that we still have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely and not fear retribution." Why should a man not be punished for murder? The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in encouraging the abrogation of individual responsibility...
...force of law in most cases protects the confidential nature of communications between lawyer and client, psychiatrist and patient, pastor and penitent (see RELIGION). Yet scientists studying antisocial or abnormal human behavior have no such protection, and are wide open to arrest for participating in illegal activities or concealing information about them. The result, many of them claim, is that little meaningful research is being done in the field of what sociologists call "deviant behavior...
Even as Spellman's body was being laid to rest, U.S. Catholics were wondering about who might succeed him as pastor of the nation's most prestigious see. The fact that no one really knew* emphasized the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the church's method of choosing its spiritual shepherds...
...Terrace caught the eye of the Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, a Swedenborgian pastor from Bryn Athyn, Pa., and an heir to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass fortune. Pitcairn, now 74, who explains with a twinkle that he selects paintings not for investment but because "I have a feeling for them," bought the Monet from a Manhattan gallery for $11,000. Last week The Terrace was up for auction at Christie's in London on behalf of Pitcairn's Beneficia Foundation. The winning bid of $1,410,000 by London Art Dealer Geoffrey Agnew was nearly triple the record auction price...
...Negro church, as well, is stirring to the responsibilities demanded of it by the new militance. "The era of welfare colonialism is over," said the Rev. Calvin Marshall, pastor of the Park Street A.M.E. Zion Church in Peekskill, N.Y., at a conference of 700 Negro clergymen in Dallas. The delegates formed a National Committee of Negro Churchmen with the declared purpose of helping black people win more control of their own destiny...