Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today France's million Protestants, about equally divided between Calvinists and Lutherans, are a prestigious minority with a reputation for scrupulous honesty and rigid morals. Their thousand-odd pastors are said to be the worst-paid ministers in Europe; in rural areas they are paid in food and fuel (rural Roman Catholic priests are not much better off). They actively proselytize among atheists and anticlericals, and even claim some success among the Roman Catholic clergy-40 priests have become ministers since the end of the war, according to Pastor Pierre Bourguet, head of France's Reformed Church...
Leveling the Obstacles. The novel experiment in Protestant monasticism was begun by Roger Schutz, 45, the ninth child of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study theology at Lausanne and Strasbourg and enter the ministry himself. In 1940, determined to serve where the need was greatest, he went to defeated France and settled in a rambling old stone building at Taizé, where for two years he hid Jews from the Nazis. The Germans never caught him. When they occupied Taizé, Schutz had returned to Switzerland. With four friends he continued...
...Australia's history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...Gentle." Even more important, Johnson has shown a monastic dedication to sport that would please the most spiritual of Olympic enthusiasts. He has shrugged off crippling injuries. In competition he has cheered on his most dangerous opponents. Says the Rev. Louis Evans, pastor of Los Angeles' Bel Air Presbyterian Church: "This is a most remark able human being. He is as gentle as a child, and yet he is tremendously competitive...
...included the junior warden and the chairman of the women's guild. They were about equally divided between men and women, and there was a large number of couples. The group included a Ph.D. and a brain surgeon." But conservative Episcopalians were shocked. In April the vestry asked Pastor Bennett for his resignation, and Bishop Francis Eric Bloy of Los Angeles sent St. Mark's a new priest and a pastoral letter banning any more speaking in tongues under church auspices...