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...literary role as a kind of Tom Thumb Wolfe in hip clothing. Like other Kerouac novels, the book has the sound of jazzed-up autobiography, and the most fictional thing about it may well be the brand of Buddhism (ostensibly Zen) that the beat hero and his pals preach and practice...
...inexorable" process: reunion with the Anglican Church (2,922,000 members), from which the Methodists originally broke away (to preach the Gospel to the masses with hotter fervor than the Anglicans considered seemly). Two-year peace talks had bogged down on the issue of apostolic succession, the Anglican doctrine which declares that the church's ministry is derived from the apostles by a continuing mystic transmission of spiritual authority through the episcopacy. "The doctrine of historic episcopacy is contrary to the plain warrant of Scripture," cried Theologian C. Kingsley Barrett of Durham University. "We must...
...Henceforth he will be allowed to preach only on the specific invitation of a Lutheran church, which he is not expected to seek, since he wants to avoid further trouble for his fellow pastors. But, while he may be a man without a church, he will never be without a flock. He is, in the view of one of his pastors, the most popular man in Hungary today...
...brotherhood headquarters last week, secretaries were swamped with letters of praise and membership applications. Said Father Cucchetti: "The days of preaching about what divides us are over. Now it is time to preach about what unites...
Overnight Righetti became a nationwide sensation. His flock rallied to him and from the courtyard 20 ft. below sent up food to his window in a basket on a rope. Crowds gathered, and Righetti decided he might usefully preach from his window. "I don't know how long I will be here," the pastor shouted below. "It is in God's hands." Communist election campaigners accused the townspeople in Fondi of "religious intolerance," and with a national election close at hand, nobody in the government wanted to stir up the anticlerical issue...