Word: pikes
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Rescinded Gifts. Other clergymen have received similar threats. Although controversial Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco has given Episcopalians numberless reasons for withholding donations, gifts to the diocese of California appear to be down 15% in 1965 chiefly because he opposed the constitutional amendment that repealed the state's fair housing act. Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, who also opposed the amendment, says that some of his Los Angeles churches "had a harder time than usual meeting the budget" for the same reason. When Episcopal Father James Jones of Chicago, the director of diocesan charities, was jailed last June...
...newspapermen ("Only the game of politics contains more men who are afflicted with venality, envy and gutlessness"). In the course of a year's column writing, he also managed to drub Hubert Humphrey, Elizabeth Taylor, John F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Pearl Bailey, James Baldwin, Bishop James Pike, balletomanes, Abraham Lincoln, Sukarno and Frank Sinatra, to name...
...Bishop Pike [Sept. 17] speak for a church and lead others in heresy is a travesty. He will have much to answer for to God, if not to the Episcopal hierarchy...
...Hooray for Bishop Pike! As an Episcopalian, I am happy to learn that one bishop recognizes that the ecclesiastical talents of women are not limited to sitting in a pew. East Glacier, Mont., seems an unlikely place for a thaw in "God's frozen people," but Bishop Pike has managed to break...
Indelible Orders. "I expected this form to be the result of your reconsideration," said Pike gracefully, and he agreed to abide by the rules. But he felt that he had won a significant clarification of the role of women in the church. In response to his arguments, the House passed another resolution that formally acknowledged deaconesses as a "fourth order" of the ministry (along with deacons, priests and bishops), whose status, like that of men, is permanent and indelible...