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Since organizing the Roman Catholic parish of St. Paul the Apostle in Richardson, Texas, eleven years ago, a team of four Paulist priests has created ecumenical good will in an area of traditional Catholic-Protestant coolness. The priests fostered a ministerial alliance in Richardson that even included Southern Baptists and Nazarenes, helped set up interdenominational Thanksgiving and Good Friday services. Last year one member of the quartet, the Rev. Joseph W. Drew, 34, became the first Catholic ever elected president of the Dallas Pastors' Association, most of whose members are Protestant. Father Drew recently became the first Catholic...
...Tuesday with the five-man executive committee of the Center's Board of Directors, and they agreed that Hagmaier should leave Harvard and return to a Paulist residence...
...Paulist fathers hope that their new catechism-which has been tried out experimentally in one-third of the U.S. dioceses-will become the standard text in American Catholic schools...
Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians, can understand. More important, it tries to relate the student's intuition of the divine to his own youthful experience...
Similar group discussions among concerned Christians can be found all across the U.S. these days, as part of an interfaith experiment in grass-roots ecumenism called "livingroom dialogues." The idea of spiritual conversations by laymen, without the inhibiting presence of a priest or minister, was thought up by Paulist Father William B. Greenspun, who developed the program with the help of the Rev. William A. Norgren, the Episcopal director of the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Department...