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...Rector of Justin, Auchincloss' best novel, neutrality worked as a novelistic technique. There, numerous witnesses to the life of Headmaster Frank Prescott assembled a fascinating portrait of a man whose substance did not have to be judged to beguile. But it does not work in The Embezzler, partly because these are not very interesting people, mainly because Auchincloss' total detachment invites the same reaction from the reader. If the book makes any point, it is even more familiar than Auchincloss' gilt-edged landscapes are by now: that the only difference between rich people and poor people...
Gardiner M. Day, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, has announced that he will resign from his parish in September, Day, who is 66, has been at Christ Church for twenty-five years...
...although the parents never got to high school, all six children attended college; one brother became a surgeon, two of them dentists. Harold Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop John P. Cody, Rummel's successor in New Orleans and now archbishop of Chicago. Cody last week joined Archbishop Hannan in announcing the appointment of his protege...
...parked the car at the Church. The rector had not been there, so we had strolled a block or two to the office of an attorney whom he had met at St. Paul's and encountered several times since. This time our visit was more cordial. We had given him and his wife a copy of "My people is the Earth" for Easter, and I think they were deeply touched. This time he was less suspicious, less defensive, less insistent that we get the hell out of town." We had talked this time of the Gospel, of what a white...
Another Pressure Group? Yet many more clergymen agree with the Rev. Frank Ross, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta, who fears that organized Christianity's increasing involvement in social and political affairs may be turning it into "just another pressure group." Ross and others see a clear difference between civil rights, where the facts to support a moral judgment are nearly all on the public record, and foreign policy, where so much essential background for decision is top secret. "There are times when we must trust our leaders to make the right moral decisions," says...