Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, meantime, do not feel that anything can change what has been done. "As usual, the church couched a lot of brutality in godly language," said the Rev. Carter Heyward, one of the eleven women ordained. "I am a priest. They cannot take that away from...
...fund was apparently started as an investment scheme for religious organizations about five years ago by Father René Sauvé, a La Salette priest with a good reputation as a money manager. Father Sauvé has refused to talk about the fund, but it seems to have been a commonplace investment operation: church groups would raise money by borrowing or selling bonds, expecting that the return on the invested proceeds would be high enough to leave a profit over and above the costs of interest and amortization. Bishop Joseph Green of Reno saw the plan...
...home in 1965 as a reprimand for his public involvement in civil rights. As an Italian-American concerned with the problems of ethnic groups in the U.S., Asciolla has become one of Chicago's-and America's -leading spokesmen for immigrant Americans. A colorful, somewhat garrulous priest from Rhode Island, he crisscrosses the U.S. as a lecturer...
Salvatore Polizzi, 43. No mere pulpit priest, the associate pastor of St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis spends most of his time on the streets of the Hill, the city's Italian district. Raised in St. Louis, Polizzi saw the beginnings of decay in the neighborhood and in 1964 formed Hill 2000-"because we plan on the Hill's being right here in the year 2000." Since then the neighborhood improvement organization has planted trees, renovated dozens of old homes to be sold cut-rate to young families, and run a popular educational summer youth program...
...Unless you can understand the ethnic factor, you can't understand the cities," warns the director of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, which runs programs aimed at developing skills and leadership. Son of an immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program, and a decade...