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...extremely difficult to engage in real conversations with our priests and bishops about these matters. We are too deferential or embarrassed. After Mass on Sundays, I can recall having animated conversations with fellow parishioners about these issues, but then, when we leave the place and shake hands with the pastor, we find it hard to say anything but "God bless you, Father." But as lay people, we can increase lay involvement in church affairs. We can tell our priests and our fellow parishioners what we find hard to believe, what we need more of--liturgically, pastorally, emotionally. The clerical closet...
...church, along with his family, has always been at the center of Reichert's life. "I can't imagine going through life without faith," he says. His grandfather was a Lutheran pastor, and Reichert attended Concordia University, a Lutheran college in Portland, Ore., intending to follow the same path. But he left school to get married, in 1970. After a spell in the Air Force as a mechanic, he joined the King County sheriff's department, which covers Seattle and extends south of the airport, over what was once open land. He found himself drawn to murders. "Homicide...
...August 1993, Stokes, then 17, told a therapist that Blackwell had been fondling him for three years during Bible study at St. Edward Church. The charge made news: the vastly popular Blackwell was the first African American to serve as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney...
...James Benjamin, head of the accounting department at Texas A&M University, told TIME that Duncan, his former student, confided in the summer of 2000 that "he was feeling frustrated with the complexity of the situation and concerned about what Andersen was doing and what was right." Duncan's pastor, Jim Jackson, says the accountant told him he had suggested to colleagues that Andersen should consider dropping Enron as a client...
...rectory, says the Rev. Jim Morris, can be a desperately lonely experience. "You share some of your parishioners' most important moments--birth, marriage, death--and at the end of the day, you lock the door, and you are by yourself." Morris, 51, spent six years as the associate pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village, N.Y. In 1995 he found himself in love and took a leave of absence to live with his partner. He continues to act sacramentally, though, celebrating Mass for a group of gay New York Roman Catholics, presiding at funerals for former parishioners...