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...recorded TIME, on 16 seven-inch records, is then sent by special delivery to the Rev. Father Harry J. Sutcliffe, 42, an Aramaic scholar who is director of the Episcopal Guild for the Blind in Brooklyn. Father Sutcliffe, blind from birth, frequently travels and lectures on interfaith relations and current affairs. Once when he mentioned to a friend that TIME would be a tremendous asset to him, the friend introduced him to Mrs. Joseph Brand, who set the volunteer program in motion. Starting this week, one of our messengers will hurry the magazine to the women as soon...
...excellence, the nation's Roman Catholic parochial schools are in trouble. Last week, an official of the National Catholic Educational Association estimated that in the past year more than 200 schools had shut down. Concurrently, Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York announced that he had named an interfaith commission of education and business experts to undertake a survey of his archdiocese's 432 schools. "We must be certain," said Cooke, "that the resources, personnel and facilities of the church are employed in the best possible manner...
...sustained by communal structure. Churchmen would also argue that there is nothing obsolete about the basic necessity for worship and prayer. "Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says the Rev. David Kirk, a Melchite Catholic priest who is founder of a unique interfaith center in Manhattan called Emmaus House. "Without worship, the community is a piece of rubbish." On the other hand, there is little doubt that the churches are in desperate need of new, this-worldly liturgies that reflect present needs rather than past glories...
...addition, Brooks, along with a group that calls itself the Interfaith Housing Corporation, is planning a radically new approach to moderate income housing. Instead of isolating the old or the poor in any one development, the Corporation is planning a mixed community. On an eight-acre tract in the Waldon Square area of Northwest Cambridge the City Stables housing project will be built--250 low rise garden apartments (for families with children) and a cluster of high rise apartments. About 25 per cent of the apartments will be rented under the Public Housing Leasing Program, under which the city pays...
Nowhere is ecumenical enthusiasm for Reformation Day greater than in The Netherlands. There, Catholic, Protestant and even Jewish scholars have participated in preparing a televised series of documentaries on Luther and his ideas, and this week there will be a major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...