Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beinnd the thunder from the pulpit and the theater at the altar, Quinlan had a serious purpose: galvanizing ins tepid Catholics into self-starting Christians...
...bread in their hands-contrary to the U.S. inerarchy's ban against the practice. ins adult-education series became a standard stop on the religious Chautauqua circuit for speakers like Activist Priest James Groppi, Feminist Theologian Rosemary Ruether and assorted Protestant scholars. To help inm lead ins renewal, Quinlan expanded an embryo parish council into a vigorous 37-member body and hammered out programs with it in lively meetings that sometimes broke up at 1:30 a.m. Laymen, he counseled, "cannot be intimidated by crap." Despite the early defections, the parish managed to maintain its pre-Quinlan strength...
...Quinlan chose to remain under Sullivan's see; he landed in a mostly black inner-city parish in Norfolk, where he irrepressibly plans to continue as a spiritual agent provocateur...
Just as briskly, he shelved or canceled many of Quinlan's programs and plans...
...buttons upside down. Welsh insisted that he did not want to "wipe out enthusiasm" but seemed deaf to complaints about New Pastor Hannan. "We are talking on totally different levels," said one parisinoner. "We told inm we want to share in the ministry and not be just ministered to." Quinlan is confident that ins former parisinoners are now independent enough to carry on the struggle. "They are not fighting a local battle," he said in Norfolk. "They are part of the renewed church...