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...Frederick Reisz Jr., senior pastor of the University Lutheran Church, represented Harvard's United Ministries at the conference in calling for "an examination of the facts concerning handguns." Handguns are responsible for 23,000 deaths each year and their availability "cannot add to our personal or community security," he said...
...lost, and has been meeting daily with various Cardinals. Despite the good prognosis for full recovery that followed last week's operation, nagging doubts remained about the future of John Paul's papacy. He has made no secret of the fact that he would rather serve as pastor to a far-flung flock than face the daily grind of church business. Vatican officials wonder what he will do if he is no longer able to carry on those winning, globetrotting ways that have helped him dramatize to the world a conservative and sometimes unpopular vision of the church...
George Clements, 49, pastor of Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, formally adopted Joey, 13, a boy abandoned since infancy. The move has been in the making since last November when Clements tried in vain to get his parishioners to take in black children, whose adoption rate lags behind that of whites. The priest, an activist who once served as a Black Panthers chaplain, went before his congregation one Sunday and announced from the altar: "All right, if you won't adopt, then I will." Though the Catholic archdiocese was cool to the proposed...
...college president and leading hardliner, offer "a Dalmatian theology"-one holding that "the Bible is inspired only in spots." Once professors accept "human embellishments" in the Bible, Patterson contended, there is no logical place to stop, and Christians find themselves "cast on a hopeless sea of subjectivism." But Houston Pastor Kenneth Chafin, a moderate, called the inerrancy crusade nothing more "than a naked, ruthless reach for personal power...
Barton's praise is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that he was fired by the school board, which includes the district's founding pastor, Tim LaHaye, in January. The sacking followed a series of disputes about school policy that, in Barton's view, illustrate the dark side of the Christian school movement. First there was the narrowness of the curriculum. Says Barton: "Almost all authors considered humanists-Emerson, Thoreau, even Shakespeare-are often eliminated wholesale from the curriculum at many schools." When Barton opposed sending the school band to a political rally...