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Stallings originally based his break with Rome on what he called the Catholic Church's unwillingness to recognize the spiritual needs of African Americans. He also complained that the church did not recognize and nurture talent (presumably his own) and that James Cardinal Hickey had insisted he undergo psychiatric treatment. According to the Post, Hickey made the demand after years of frustration over Stallings' Lone Ranger tactics. Especially disturbing to Hickey, said the Post, were Stallings' refusal to live in a rectory and questions about whether the priest's expensively decorated private residence had been partly funded by church offerings...
Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
Pollution protest. Rome's nature lovers plan to put their bodies on the line April 21 when they stage a sit-down, maybe even a lie-in, along one of the Italian capital's traffic-choked central thoroughfares. Survivors can attend a concert in a nearby piazza...
...Originating on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago, the newborn faith spread rapidly to Syria, and thence the apostle Paul took it to his native land, present-day Turkey. Others went southward to Egypt, making Alexandria the first center of Christian culture long before Rome and Constantinople. The rise of Islam beginning in the 7th century ultimately made that faith predominant...
...whole idea of republican government becomes a farce. If every disgruntled minority can take up its marbles and secede, then the monarchist and other reactionary critics of the (then) unique American experiment in republican government would be vindicated: man is not fit for self-government. As in classical Rome and Greece, self-government inevitably breaks down into either anarchy or tyranny...