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...committee of 13 clergymen, doctors and educators was headed by Methodist Pastor Kenneth G. Greet, father of three children and author of two books on sex relationships. It rejected the council's original instructions which were to prepare "a statement of the Christian case for abstinence from sexual intercourse before marriage and faithfulness within marriage." The morality of human sexuality, asserted the committee firmly, admits of no precise and easy answers. A principal aim of the study group, said Greet, was precisely to correct the distorted concept that the church is made up of "sexless saints sitting in judgment...
...nightclubs are in far less need of preachers than the cathedrals." He sometimes has to deal with heckling spectators who have had a bit too much to drink, but in general the audience, which often includes priests and ministers, seems to like his act. The Rev. James Clark Brown, pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church, calls Father Boyd's appearance at the hungry i "the most effective and, for my money [$3.50 a head], gutty evangelism I've observed in a long time...
Adam Clayton Powell has many proclivities in common with George Gordon Byron, but he has one clear occupational advantage over the poet. He composes his own sermons. Last week, addressing the faithful at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, Pastor-Congressman Powell recounted the saga of Daniel, with himself in the starring role. The lions, he implied, were those ravening "racists" on his House Education and Labor Committee who planned to make entrecote of their chairman...
More a Messiah. Up against Judge Cannon's immovability came Father Groppi, who is the assistant pastor of St. Boniface's, a church with an almost all-Negro congregation in the heart of the city's "Inner Core," or black ghetto. The priest has made the Negro's problems his own; he participated in last year's famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned...
...than a leader. To be even closer to them, the priest moved last July from his rectory to Freedom House, a residence and office he set up for the youth council. So "totally immersed" in the Negro's problems is he, says his superior, St. Boniface's Pastor Eugene Bleidorn, that Father Groppi is "a Negro with white skin." Adds Groppi himself: "I will picket with the Negro, I will go South with him, I will go to jail with him, and I will hang with him if it need...