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...Saginaw, Mich., the Chicano community has been riven by bloody feuds for a dozen years. There have been at least 20 deaths and more than 100 injuries as factions have competed to control the local drug traffic. Father William Frigo, associate pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the barrio, said recently, "Many of our vendetta families have no sons left." In the past fortnight he has organized special Masses dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is revered by Mexicans as their protectress. The prayer services for civil peace have attracted overflow crowds, for the time...
...meantime, local parishes are beginning to be caught up in the civil war. One historic congregation, 90-year-old Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has actually split this month over the biblical debate. Its liberal-leaning pastor, who quit under pressure from his deacons for his scriptural views, is being followed into exile by 50 of Trinity's families, with whom he is forming a new congregation called Peace Lutheran Church. The separation of Peace and Trinity will become official on Christmas...
Last year, at the Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name in Carson Springs, Term., an assistant pastor and a church elder died after drinking strychnine during a snake-handling ceremony. Soon after, a circuit court judge signed an injunction prohibiting snake handling at the church but-curiously -permitting the drinking of strychnine...
...founded only four years ago by seven beer buffs in St. Louis, numbers among members of its 14 chapters 40 accountants, 51 schoolteachers, 14 college professors, ten doctors, 57 engineers, 13 lawyers, six cartographers, 15 journalists-and only seven bartenders. Several ministers are also can cultists, including a Connecticut pastor who starts letters to fellow collectors "Dearly Beerloved." The association distributes a bimonthly newsletter, holds a sudsy annual "can-vention" that was attended this fall by more than 600 enthusiasts, and each year bestows on some beer-busty lass the dubious title of Miss Beer Can. Members range in rank...
Last week Bishop Welsh inmself visited the unhappy parish, some of whose members showed up wearing "smile" buttons upside down. Welsh insisted that he did not want to "wipe out enthusiasm" but seemed deaf to complaints about New Pastor Hannan. "We are talking on totally different levels," said one parisinoner. "We told inm we want to share in the ministry and not be just ministered to." Quinlan is confident that ins former parisinoners are now independent enough to carry on the struggle. "They are not fighting a local battle," he said in Norfolk. "They are part of the renewed church...