Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the Beatles were still in the heavy rock kick, Simon & Garfunkel were producing great intellect. When the Beatles can produce something like A Poem on The Underground Wall, or Sounds of Silence, they will be truly great...
Making Masses. Although CLEO has lately basked in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, it is typical of countless secret and semisecret organizations in the U.S. that together add up to what Episcopal Nightclub Chaplain Malcolm Boyd calls an "underground church...
Much like CLEO, the underground churches consist of dedicated, intellectu al Christians who meet in each others homes to study the Bible, discuss contemporary issues and worship together at informal, often improvised Masses of their own making...
...growth of these cells to a feeling widespread among believers that to find true Christianity and meaningful social involvement they must go beyond traditional churches, which are controlled by "bish ops with price tags all over their bodies." Jesuit Sociologist Rocco Caporale of the University of California sees the underground church as a return to the personalized "mystery dimension" of early Christianity and a reaction to the massive, corporate impersonality of institutionalized parishes...
Because of the slow pace of renewal since the ending of the Second Vatican Council, the underground church movement seems to be strongest among Roman Catholics-although most cells ecumenically include Protestants, Jews and even atheists. A few operate with quasi-official approval. On Chicago's South Side, for example, 40 members of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead...