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...that morning, the Rev. Thomas Dempsey stood before his parishioners in a park across the street from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in St. Charles, Ill., and celebrated his first Mass since his return. "I would like to make the greatest understatement of my life," said the smiling priest, "when I say to you, I'm happy to be with you. It is fitting that we are meeting on July Fourth to celebrate the most precious gift we have, the priceless gift of freedom." All the while John Testrake was being driven home to Richmond...
...decades and now 25,000 strong, has an elaborate cultural center-cum-Hindu temple in Flushing, complete with domes and sculpted elephants. One day in May, Kari and Shanthi Naidu were worshiping at the altar of Sri Mahalaksai, a god of well- being. They had paid a Hindu priest $5 for a prayer service. "Quite frankly," says Kari Naidu, "I did not become a believer until I arrived in this country. But here, away from home, I recognized there is something more important than daily affairs...
...only Hispanics, of course, who are tempted to hunker down in an insular subculture. "In the summer," says Emmanuel Pratsinakis, a Greek Orthodox priest in Briarwood, Queens, "the air is full of the sound of children shouting in Greek. This community gives a feeling of security." "Polish Greenpoint is comfortable, familiar," says Ponanta, the typesetter. "You stay as long as you need to, then move out to Queens, to Manhattan." Assimilation still seems inexorable. "We want to be part of American culture," says Richard Ou of Flushing. The Russian New Yorkers may keep eating piroshki forever, but, says Sima Blokh...
...result, U.S. Catholicism often seems unfriendly and unfamiliar to Hispanics. Says Xavier Murrieta, a Mexican immigrant in the Protestant Centro de Amor Cristiano in Phoenix: "In small Mexican villages the local priest is a family counselor, the doctor, the lawyer. That ingredient is missing here." Roberto Martinez, who owns a Chicago restaurant favored by Hispanics, believes that U.S. priests do not mingle enough. Says he: "I've never met a priest in my restaurant, but I've met a hundred reverends...
...state laws requiring that signs of suspected child abuse be reported. The archdiocese also set up a special panel to evaluate complaints. According to guidelines issued last month for all New Jersey dioceses, reports of abuse are to be referred immediately to state authorities and diocesan officials, an accused priest is to be removed from contact with children until the case is cleared up, and families and children are to be offered church counseling...