Word: pastoral
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Governor Volpe and Cardinal Cushing were among the dignitaries to attend a mass in honor of the Pt. Reverend Augustine. Hickey, Pastor of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Boston, who is retiring after 10 years of service...
...Augustine F. Hickey will retire Sunday as pastor of St. Paul's Church after 40 years at the parish. The Church is on Bow St. across from Adams House...
Remembered for leading his church's opposition to Hitler, Evangelical Pastor Martin Niemöller still enjoys a reputation abroad as one of Germany's most respected clerics. He was elected one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches in 1961, will help preside at the council's meeting this week in Nigeria. But at home Niemöller is more and more regarded with the same kind of pained dismay that Anglican clerics reserved for the late "Red Dean" of Canterbury-and for a not wholly dissimilar reason. He is now a militant...
Realities & Fantasies. The pastor's latest blastled a government spokesman to suggest that it would be wiser to ignore the thoughts of a man "who cannot always distinguish clearly between realities and fantasies." Hannover's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje called ballot invalidation "a mistaken means of striving for peace." Hamburg Theologian-Preacher Helmut Thielicke said: "Niemöller is a typical German, who has no sense for compromise." But German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired...
Unwanted Vacation. Unlike Du Bay, a lowly parish assistant, Coffield is widely respected in Los Angeles as a longtime pastor learned in modern Catholic theology and devoted to youth work and urban renewal. Last May he began to preach against Proposition 14, a referendum to void state laws against racial discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon...