Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal tipped off the gamblers, girlies and gapers of the famous Strip that their favorite priest was leaving town. The Rev. Richard Anthony Crowley, 51, had been assigned by his bishop to a parish in Springfield, Ill., where a Roman Catholic priest might look a bit out of place in a $6,850, 105-m.p.h. white sports car with green leather upholstery. Last week the Vegas crowd threw Father Crowley a farewell party in the town's saucer-shaped Convention Center...
...pair of Protestant nuns from Darmstadt, members of an order that works with the Jews in repentance for Germany's crimes against them, who fasted on Yom Kippur and read selections from the Jewish prayer book. ¶ A Baptist minister, the Rev. Dwight Baker, who was worried about whether to encourage a group of Baptist converts from Judaism in their desire to continue obeying Jewish laws while still believing that Jesus was the Messiah...
...REV. HERBERT BARSALE...
Coming to a Halt. One interested reader was the Rev. William O. Richards, rector of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church of Glenwood Springs. Reproachfully, he wrote Drake: Why had his permission not been asked to use St. Paul's? Drake replied that he thought it had. Up turned Rector Richards with a letter from the Bishop of Colorado, the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Minnis: the Episcopalians were taking over again. "I was advised that nondenominational services were being held in the church, and that it was being referred to as a community church," said the bishop. "This I could...
...REV. JOHN SIMMONS of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, Calif.: "Self-preservation is the first law of human nature. But there is a higher law-God's. Man's first concern should be for others, not for himself...