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Though such eruptions sometimes split parishes, Holy Trinity remains united, and three offshoot churches are thriving. The reaction of other pastors is benignly wary. "We are watchful," says the Rev. Richard Bewes, vicar at All Souls, an evangelical Anglican church in central London. "One doesn't want something to be blown up that then proves to be a letdown." No sign of that yet: lines outside Holy Trinity now start forming an hour and a half before services...
...latest book is a novel, The Vicar of Sorrows (Norton; 391 pages; $23), about a lost Anglican clergyman. It represents the author's serious side, but the material is a bit balky. Handsome, remote Francis Kreer, vicar of St. Birinus, no longer believes in God or loves his wife. His troubling daughter Jessica means more to him, but not quite enough. Kreer's decline begins when his mother changes her will, leaving him about half what he expected. Suddenly he finds himself no longer competent to deal with petty parochial rifts. Before long he is besotted with a pretty young...
...besotted clergyman is A.N. Wilson's The Vicar of Sorrows...
Boles has also been vicar of St. Paul's church on Bow St., since...
...Vicar is survived by her parents, George and Elizabeth Mac Vicar of DeBary, Fla., and two sisters, Anne Amato of Brookline, N.H., and Victoria Mac Vicar of Pepperell, Mass...