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...Episcopal Church operates on a pay-as-you-go budget, each diocese and each parish contributing its share. The parish budget contains an item for missions, and the parish is expected to send this allotment to headquarters. But currently many a rector, like the one in Southern Ohio, is holding out on missionary money. Last week, in a report announcing a deficit of $1.200,000 for this year and last, National Episcopal Treasurer Lewis Battelle Franklin revealed that only 4? out of every dollar given the church had been used for missions. Mildly he noted that "pressure of parochial...
Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...
...Garden City, wealthy Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires, 67, of Long Island's Episcopal Diocese, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his marriage to Sarah Hardwick Stires, whom he met while rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Augusta, Ga. "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find my wife," said...
...Manhattan. Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, 77, rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral for 47 years, was appointed vicar general, second in rank in the archdiocese. Long Cardinal Hayes's handyman, Monsignor Lavelle has specialized in Catholic charities and education. In his youth he carried the train of Archbishop John McCloskey at his investiture as first U. S. Cardinal...
...London, a brisk controversy sprang up between the rectors of All Hallows-on-the-Wall and St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, two of the 47 churches in the City. Rector Sanders of All Hallows-on-the-Wall urged that all but four or five City churches be closed on Sunday. "On a recent Sunday," he exclaimed, "my congregation consisted of half a dozen adults and a small party of Girl Guides!" But Rector Sankey of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe disagreed, said that all City churches should be "red hot missionary centres for the conversion of London...