Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Archdiocese of Boston named Father John Boles to replace Father Edward G. Murray as pastor of St. Paul's. Boles will name a new staff for the Catholic Student Center...
...days ago he thumbed through a copy of a sermon given out in the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, by Duncan Littlefair, a pastor who has been genially opposed to Ford's political theology for 30 years. It was a shaft of light in the pardon gloom that spread over Ford's enlightened beginning...
...should do so again in the case of a war that was regarded by many Americans as immoral. While few extremists on the amnesty issue were pleased with President Ford's proposal, many Americans regarded it as a constructive step. Stanford Professor Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian pastor who served five days in jail after a 1971 demonstration, called Ford's plan "a very gutsy thing," especially since Brown had assumed "the issue was going to be on the back burner for a long time...
...couple had planned to take their three-month-old son Nathaniel to Immaculate Conception Church in Marlboro, Mass., for his baptism as a Roman Catholic. Guests were beginning to gather for a gala baptismal party. Then the phone rang: a call from Father John J. Roussin, assistant pastor of the church. Was she the same Carol Morreale who had been quoted in a Marlboro newspaper as supporting the establishment of an abortion-information clinic in the city? She was. In that case, warned the priest, "there might be some problems...
...there were. When the couple arrived at the church, Mrs. Morreale was told that her son would not be baptized unless and until she withdrew her support of the proposed abortion clinic. Roussin and the church's pastor, Monsignor Francis X. Meehan, feared that her views on abortion so seriously contradicted church teachings that the child could not be brought up as a believing Catholic. They may have misunderstood Mrs. Morreale, who says she does not favor abortion herself, only the right of others to choose it. But one church canon does enjoin priests from baptizing an infant unless...