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Perhaps 2,200 of the Episcopal Church's 9,000 ministers are in need of pastoral counseling because of frustration in their jobs, estimates the Rt. Rev. Chandler W. Sterling. Properly appalled by this gloomy statistic, Bishop Sterling is now planning what he hopes will become a nationwide rehabilitation...
Sensing a flap of sorts, Pusey referred the decision on Watson's work to the Harvard Corporation. It was the first time that University officials outside of the Press chose to review the editorial judgment of Wilson and the Syndics. Even though the Press continued to stand behind Watson's...
The fault was in the aim. Much of the film was shot in rural villages purportedly laid waste by U.S. bombing. Many of the participants, however, seemed to have come from Central Casting. They were indomitable, photogenic people, barefoot and singing as they cleared away the rubble. (The implication was...
The Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. issued a 25,000-word pastoral letter last week that was both a summons to continued renewal of the church and a warning against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned...
Excess of Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick...