Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alabama cops arrested their first suspects next day. One was Horn, 39-year-old pastor of three Baptist churches. The other was Claude Luker, an owner of a Talladega furniture store-and of the maroon Chevrolet. The charge: murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...
Cardinal Spellman and 500 U.S. Roman Catholics were off on the first large Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome. Just back from Rome was a happy Church Point, La. pastor, the Right Rev. Msgr. Clay A. Bienvenu, who boasted that because he bears a startling resemblance to Cardinal Spellman he was able to "crash the gates" at an important beatification ceremony...
Karl Marx & Movie Stars. First guiding spirit of the Mission de Paris was the late Abbe Henri Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
...great white man. In them Negroes can see bishops and ministers who represent their race in the worship of God and thereby dignify it . . ." But in the Roman Catholic Church "almost all of our cities, north and south, are without a single Negro priest who is a pastor . . . 'Negro priest' sounds like 'square circle' to the average American...
...respected friend to both girls and gamblers; sometimes dead-broke streetwalkers "timidly would . . . ask: 'Will you lend me a dollar, Reverend?' And I always would." Once, he remembers, a prostitute new to the district asked him coyly: "Anything doing tonight?" Replied he: "No, but I am Pastor Ransom . . . and if you ever get sick or in trouble and have no one to turn to, either you come or send for me and I think there will be 'something doing...