Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father. What particularly bothered her was a growing feeling that, since her husband had been divorced once, her marriage was adulterous. It was a bit late, considering the fact that they had been married since 1953 and had five children, but she went ahead and wrote to the Rev. David Antion, a minister of the church, to ask: Was her marriage valid? "In God's eyes and according to the Bible," wrote back Antion, "the present state would be adulterous." Four months later, she moved out of the house...
...goals has stirred angry opposition, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, which contends that state aid to parochial schools violates the separation of church and state and undermines the public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally strong feelings about it. In Providence, R.I., this month, the Rev. C. Clifford Sargent, superintendent of the Methodist district, asked that a message be read from the district's pulpits urging defeat of the Rhode Island tuition grant bill. In Pennsylvania, state aid to parochial schools has been opposed by a number of religious groups, including the mostly Protestant state...
...ordination, Episcopal officials invited his flower-power friends to participate, and modified the stately services to accommodate the spirit of the occasion. St. Mark's was decked out with gas-filled balloons and banners, children wandered along the aisles at will, and the sermon by the Rev. John Pairman Brown was entitled "God Is Doing His Thing." When the congregation was invited to "donate something which has meaning to you," the collection plate yielded little money but plenty of beads, marbles, a draft card and even a package of morning-glory seeds. Later, Father York distributed communion...
...store. Fires were set to the garbage piling up at a rate of nearly 500 tons a day. Windows have been broken in laundries and barbecue restaurants bearing the Loeb name (they are owned by the mayor's brother). "I am not in favor of violence," said the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., an erudite militant who leads much of the Negro struggle. But "if I were inclined to advocate burning, it would be in East Memphis [where the mayor lives]-I think we've had enough talk of this burning down our own neighborhoods...
...much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul confounded all handicappers by naming as head of the nation's richest and most prestigious archdiocese a young and virtually unknown prelate: the Most Rev. Terence James Cooke, 47, one of New York's twelve auxiliary bishops...