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DELORES F. ADAMS, 63; INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV.; retired nurse When Adams won $9.3 million at the slots in Reno in 1992, giving was first on her mind. Initially, she helped her husband, two sons, six sisters and three brothers. Then she donated pews and stained-glass windows to her childhood...
At the Kenrick School of Theology in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, everyone knows everyone else's name. Gathering for evening prayers, some 50 seminarians arrange themselves among pews that were built to hold 10 times that number. Last July the Vincentians handed the school over to the Archdiocese...
Fewer and fewer men, says Richard Schoenherr, a former priest, now married and a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Last year he coauthored a book called Full Pews and Empty Altars. By his projections, the number of active diocesan priests in the U.S., which stood at...
As executive director of the Christian Coalition, Reed is master of a much more powerful and effective machine than is almost any presidential candidate. By mobilizing eager volunteers down to the precinct (and local church) level and handing out 33 million voter guides -- often in church pews -- prior to last...
But the heart of the store remains church goods, and they deal in everything from palms to pews.