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...them-the darling daughters of the best families in town-all young, all restless, all dying for a big romance. They sip their Cokes hopefully, they pump each other carefully, they whip their cars ostentatiously through the streets of Andalusia, Ga. It is all because of the new rector, Mark Barbee, who is giving the Episcopal service a lilt such as Andalusia has never heard before. When the four girls kneel in his church, Rector Barbee suspects they have come "not to worship God, but to worship him." He finds it unsettling...
Since his ordination 23 years ago, William C. Kernan has made a name for himself as an Episcopal priest. In addition to his parish duties as assistant to the rector of the Church of St. James the Less in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., Father Kernan has appeared as a religious spokesman on frequent radio and TV programs. Most recently he has been leading a fight against "Communist influences" in Scarsdale's public schools. Last week, after preaching at the morning service, 52-year-old High Churchman Kernan told his rector that he did not consider himself an Episcopalian any more...
...summed up his personal dilemma: "Authority means law which is enforceable. There is an absolute lack of authority in the Episcopal Church-at least so far as the priesthood is concerned. Our Lord did not found the church on the laity. He founded it on the priesthood. Yet the rector of an Episcopal church has to do what the people want...
...Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims "the right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of property." It forbids wiretapping and capital punishment; it authorizes peaceful picketing. It also "recognizes the existence of" such aspirations as the right to work, to free schooling, "the right...
Early last week, just a month after a brilliant lecture on why he became a Jesuit, Father Tondi slipped out of his room at Gregorian University. "I'm not coming back," he telephoned the rector next morning. "Don't look for me." Four days later, a front-page spread in Rome's party-lining daily Il Paese announced that Alighiero Tondi had joined the Communist Party...