Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the school transfer was ordered, Nephew, an IBM programmer, and some friends asked the pastor of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church for help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
Bilingual Buttonholing. The next day the Americans fanned out to assignments in 17 cities. In Alicante, 21 of them were greeted by a band, a crowd of 500 and the local Baptist pastor, a convert from Catholicism, who remembered clearly the bitterness of discrimination against Protestants. Said he: "I have not been so nervous since my wedding day." In every city, the meetings drew hundreds of curious Spaniards. The Americans also tried some door-to-door buttonholing, aided by bilingual dictionaries. In Lerida, the local radio broadcast spot commercials for the crusade 14 times daily, and in Cordova, the Baptists...
Clement's ventures. Though last month's robing ceremony for the Companions of St. John took place in the church's sanctuary, Bishop Horace W.B. Donegan asked them not to use the church for a widely publicized solemnization of a "holy union" between Pastor Clement and his lover of twelve years, John Noble, 50. Instead, the ceremony took place at an off-Broadway theater, the Performing Garage...
...Jersey's First Baptist Church. Along with the other 100 members of the Angelic Choir, Doris goes to Friday-night choir practice, tours along with the gospelers, and occasionally invites them all up to her 2,500-acre estate in Somerville. "We know Doris is a millionaire," said Pastor Lawrence Roberts. "But all those who walk in the ways of the Lord are millionaires...
...thing of awe, the Catholic parish pastor-a force as redoubtable and durable as a Southern Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He was a marvelous blend of Barry Fitzgerald and Boss Tweed: irascible conscience of the stingy, puckish doer of good deeds among the neighborhood's fallen. He was absolute ruler of his realm, certain that parishioners who might doubt the Pope's infallibility would never for a minute dare question...