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...allegations could slow or even reverse the growth of Stallings' empire. Since founding his original Imani Temple, which meets in a rented community center, Stallings has established satellite congregations in Norfolk, Va., Baltimore and Philadelphia. To date he has attracted several thousand disciples, both ex-Catholics and ex-Protestants. Stallings says he gives eight or ten speeches a month around the U.S., and each time he speaks, local blacks want to set up churches. But the priest of a second African-American congregation in Washington forsook Stallings last year...
...reckon with. During a twelve-year assignment, the 41-year-old priest built up a black parish from 200 to 2,000 families. Last year Hickey appointed him director of the archdiocese's evangelism program. Heedless of Hickey's stern warnings, Stallings is determined to celebrate Mass for his Imani (Swahili for faith) Temple, which will meet temporarily in a chapel at Howard University. How many of the archdiocese's 80,000 black parishioners will enlist in this self-made Catholicism? Jacqueline Wilson, who directs the Washington archdiocesan office for black Catholics, thinks "there are a lot who share...
...could spread beyond Washington. He was recently president of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and built a nationwide following through appearances in black parishes. He claims that he remains within the Catholic Church but rejects its hierarchical rule, charging that the bishops are imperialistic and the church racist. Imani Temple, vows Stallings, "will ask the people what we should be all about...
Several high school and college writers were included in the journal, including Christian Neira '91 and Concord high school student Imani Perry. Perry wrote an essay on the differences between private and public secondary school education, the former of which she sees as learning how to conceptualize, the latter a matter of "making things seem correct...
...Imani Butler, the city's new emergency services coordinator, agreed yesterday with the study's profile of Cambridge's 1500 homeless. She added that while Dukakis is making a serious effort to alleviate the problem, cities are often having a lot of trouble getting state funds...