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...ardent supporters of Trinity Church's controversial pastor, D. Douglas Roth; their arrest marks the latest episode in an extraordinary series of events at his parish. Roth, who was appointed pastor of Trinity Lutheran in 1978, is a member of the Denominational Ministry Strategy, a social activist group of Pittsburgh-area clergy. D.M.S. is allied with a militant group of local labor leaders and unemployed workers, which has accused banks and businesses of undermining the local economy by investing funds and shifting jobs overseas...
...complaints of conservative parishioners about D.M.S. partisanship were relatively restrained until last year, when members of the contentious group began disrupting worship services at area churches attended by executives of targeted corporations. As a result, 71 of the 145 members of Roth's church petitioned the Lutheran regional synod to investigate their pastor's conduct. The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that...
...When Roth refused to comply and barricaded himself inside the Clairton church, Bishop May won a court order to oust him. Roth eventually surrendered, and on Nov. 13 was sentenced to 90 days in prison for contempt of court. A special Lutheran panel will soon consider whether Roth should be defrocked...
...reality, of course, is that Doctorow is writing, telling prickly truths, getting a life down on the page. The result is totally shapeless, but it is also funny and full of juice. It is interesting to note that John Updike, in his Bech chronicles, Philip Roth, in his Zuckerman books, and now Doctorow have written some of their best recent work about the impossibility of writing. Writers, it seems certain, will outsurvive cockroaches, no matter what toxins they spray on themselves. -By John Skow
...Allegheny County sheriff, who hesitated at first to enter church premises forcibly, finally ordered Roth arrested near his altar last week. For disobeying the court order, Roth was given 90 days in prison and a $1,200 fine. While Bishop May decides whether to defrock the clergyman, Roth vows to remain in jail until he is reinstated at the church and executives agree to negotiate with DMS. Considering the hard feelings that now exist, his sentence is likely to run out before there is any compromise...