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...exercise of free speech protected a member of the Christian Church of Beaver City, Nebraska who, "in a becoming manner" and in keeping with "the precepts and usages" of the church, interrupted the preacher to contest a point of religious doctrine. The impromptu sermon was held to be legal even though it caused a commotion in the church. But it was held to be a disturbance of worship for one faction of a congregation to enter a church while another faction was worshipping there and to inform the minister of the rival faction that he could not preach there that...
Pope Paul VI has strong feelings about priests who have asked to be relieved of their vows. So strong, in fact, that last week he put them in one of the bitterest possible Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been...
Before October was over, Manhattan Lawyer Sidney B. Alexander had prepared a list of complaints against Schechter. Among them: "an unsightly looking mass of hippie-type hair," a "spirit of levity" in the Yom Kippur sermon, and an unseemly harping on the "doomsday theory." The charges were tabled by the temple's trustees, but the malediction lingered...
...diary, for which he had publication in mind from the start, Siegel lets it all hang out: the April Friday that he chose to give his "Sermon of the Year" on Portnoy's Complaint, and drew a Yom Kippur-sized crowd: the July day when he had to delay a wedding ceremony in order to satisfy the couple's wish that they be pronounced man and wife at the moment the astronauts landed on the moon: the mother who decided on a ruinous $15,000 bar mitzvah so that "we'll be able to face our neighbors...
There are moments of humorous relief. At the Portnoy sermon, Siegel's mother announced her opinion of the book: "That Mrs. Portnoy, she was a wonderful mother. After all, she was only doing what was best for her children." At a four-day seminar in upstate New York, a 70-year-old lady developed a crush on Siegel and finally popped a proposition: "Why don't we go to Israel together? I'll pay." Notes Siegel dryly: "I guess she thought that's the way to pick up a rabbi...