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...many to reflect a decline of decision and direction. The prevalent eroticism in the arts, sexual permissiveness, the drug culture, the rise in crime and other violence, the increase in petty dishonesty ?all point to the erosion of the churches' moral authority. With gallows humor, a Catholic priest dismisses reforms like lay parish councils as "shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic...
...aloof and alien technological society has already shocked man into a rediscovery of his own humanity, with all its hopes and miseries. In every faith and in every believer, there is once again a burgeoning awareness of God?or at least a sense that every man is a priest to his fellow...
Married. The Rev. Daniel McLellan, 53, Denver-born Roman Catholic missionary priest, who while on assignment in Peru in 1960 pioneered a savings and loan association, Mutual El Pueblo, for impoverished peasants, then built it into a $14 million concern; and Ada Chirinos, 28, his Peruvian secretary; in a civil ceremony; in Lima. McLellan's resignation from the priesthood was sanctioned by the Pope, and he will stay on as president of the savings and loan association, now Peru's largest...
Worst of all, suggested a Roman Catholic observer at the meeting, the N.C.C. may be losing its constituency. Dutch Catholic Priest Leo G. M. Alting von Geusau, secretary-general of Rome's International Documentation Center, which does research for the council, warned the delegates that institutional ecumenism is becoming the province of "a smaller and smaller group of ecumenists, meeting and meeting again in endless commissions, running behind the facts." In the meantime, as von Geusau and other critics noted, the young and the disaffected are moving away from churchly institutions, seeking to rediscover the radical meaning...
...Everyone." he said with childlike delight. "From little old ladies from Pasadena to Madison Avenue types who pretend to have missed their train to Wall Street types who examine the hardware to the hippies who come about ten o'clock at night. We've had two rabbis, a priest...