Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...churches after a split of more than four centuries. "It would appear that Dr. Coggan is overeager and jumping his fences without due regard for their height," sniffed a Roman Curia official. "We are a long, long way from accepting the Host at the hands of an Anglican pastor...
Hesburgh's batch of mail touched on the widely contrasting aspects of his life -appealing to the simple pastor as well as to the clerical entrepreneur. There was a letter from Cardinal Franz Koenig of Vienna congratulating Hesburgh on his recent elevation to the chairmanship of the Rockefeller Foundation. A woman friend in terrible emotional trouble begged for help. Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, wanted Hesburgh to fly over and help stop the rapid development of high-rise buildings. There was a hopeful note from the freshman class asking if Hesburgh would attend their formal dance. Another letter...
...thirds of the states that have refused to ratify the ERA are in the South-which still proclaims the romantic ideal of womanhood, and where resentment continues to fester over civil rights laws and constitutional amendments passed almost a century ago. As the Rev. Bob Clark, a fundamentalist pastor, thundered during a Florida radio talk show: "Section 2 [of the ERA] says the Congress shall have the power to enforce the article. There's Big Daddy Fed again... When you start getting the Federal Government in on it, that's where the trouble begins...
Edwards' opposition to a 1965 resolution barring "Negroes and other civil rights agitators" from membership in the church where Jimmy Carter used to worship nearly cost the pastor his job last October. Last week he was ambushed by a faction that demanded he be fired. After several hours of bitter debate, Edwards agreed to leave his post April...
...about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting...