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James Armstrong, a Methodist bishop, rushed to the reservation. Armstrong asked Rev. John P. Adams, a member of the Methodist church's law and community relations division, to accompany...
Although Adams remained close at hand, he no longer took an active part in the negotiations. Adams was not the first clergyman that Wilson forced from the reservation. Rev. Paul Boe, a Lutheran minister, left Pine Ridge during the third week of the occupation after Wilson allegedly threatened him with physical violence. Wilson denied Boe's charges...
Intramural exchanges in the higher reaches of the Catholic Church are seldom made public. But recently, the Society of Jesus confirmed that its superior general, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, had sent a letter of apology to a ranking member of the Papal Curia, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. Arrupe's letter expressed regret for an article in the London Observer by Father Peter Hebblethwaite, S.J., editor of the English Jesuit magazine, The Month. Hebblethwaite had attacked Benelli, who is considered one of Pope Paul VI's closest confidants and advisers, as being "concerned with prestige and pomposity...
...eerie episode in September 1967, the Canadian Television Network broadcast a séance in which the Rev. Arthur Ford, a Disciples of Christ minister as well as a prominent medium, supposedly brought Pike into communication with his son and a number of other dead acquaintances. Most critics dismissed the performance as theatrical charlatanism that embarrassingly exposed the bishop's gullibility...
...background could have given Ford all the information he needed to fake the "contact"-facts about the Pike family's Slavic origins or James Jr.'s precarious mental, health. During the séance, Ford purportedly made contact with a former colleague of Pike's, the Rev. Louis W. Pitt. Ford had said, somewhat with an air of mystery: "He tried, or people tried, twice to make a bishop of him, but failed." Spraggett observes that Ford had in his files a clip of Pitt's obituary in the New York Times in 1959, which mentioned...