Word: revs
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Last week the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete...
...Rev. John E. Hines, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, reiterated that the churches of the Anglican Communion are in "vigorous support" of programs for population control. Approved by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in 1958, birth control was explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Episcopal General Convention three years later, and has since been accepted practice in the church. Hines said that the Episcopal Church is sponsoring more than 15 experimental birth control clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Six of them are in nominally Catholic countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and the Philippines...
...chaired by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In setting up a formal hierarchical synod under the title of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the prelates also made provisions for electing its officers. Chosen on the third ballot as first president of the conference was the Most Rev. John Francis Dearden, 59, the progressive Archbishop of Detroit...
Divorced. By Ann Clark Rockefeller Pierson, 32, elder daughter of Nelson: the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 40, Episcopal clergyman jailed after a 1961 Jackson, Miss., sit-in; on grounds of "incompatibility of temperament"; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...REV.) JOSEPH P. SMITH Oxford Bible Church Oxford...