Word: rectorate
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...foreign affairs? A radical minority would commit the churches to total opposition to war. The Rev. Stephen Rose, editor of Chicago's interdenominational monthly Renewal, suggests that the church should give moral backing to soldiers who refuse to fight in Viet Nam. Says the Rev. Gardiner Day, rector of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Cambridge, Mass., who has denounced Red China's exclusion from the U.N. in a sermon: "The church should speak out on all social, political and economic matters. If you don't speak when the crisis is with you, you never get another chance...
Chief defendant was Father László Emödi, 45, former rector of Budapest's Regnum Marianum Church, which was razed by the Reds in 1950 to make room for a huge statue of Stalin. Emödi was first imprisoned in 1961 for organizing religious instruction among children, but was later amnestied. Now he must serve out the four remaining years of his earlier jail sentence as well as five more years for his latest "relapse." Also convicted: Father Alajos Werner, Hungary's leading composer of religious music, who several years ago attended a congress...
...believe that integration is contrary to God's will," says the Rev. Ernest Risley, 59, Pennsylvania-born rector of St. John's for 29 years. Since his installation, he has refused to admit Negroes to worship-except for servants attending a family wedding or funeral-on the ground that those who show up at the door want to make a political point rather than pray...
...minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...
...until there is scarcely a truly private college left in Canada. Provincial governments pick up nearly 40% of the operating costs of the colleges, the federal government about 20%, tuition 27%, and private sources the rest. Typical effect: the French Catholic University of Montreal will get its first layman rector, Rhodes Scholar Roger Gaudry, in June...