Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psyched Up. The President caught it from the other side. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, headed by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, jumped on Nixon for demanding that busing be held to the legal minimum. "What the nation needed," said the commissioners, "was a call for the immediate elimination of the dual school system and for support of all those school officials who are forthrightly carrying out their legal obligations. Unfortunately, the President's statement almost certainly will have the opposite effect." One embittered HEW staffer conceded that the school officials "are more confused now," adding, "they...
While Ulster seethed, two governments fell in quick succession under persistent attack from such Protestant extremists as the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Minister William Craig. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a gesture of conciliation, Faulkner advocated the establishment of three new parliamentary committees, two of which would be chaired by opposition members. But Protestant and Catholic alike were lukewarm to the plan. As friction increased early this summer, Catholic opposition leaders boycotted the Ulster Parliament and threatened to set up their...
...when many other Roman Catholic priests choose to marry first and ask questions later, the Rev. Daniel C. Maguire, 40, has been something of an anomaly-and a considerable problem for his ecclesiastical superiors. Maguire wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He also happened to be a respected moral theologian teaching at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He meant to retain that position after marrying...
...larger of the two is the Rev. Troy Perry's Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles (TIME, July 13, 1970), which now has eleven affiliated congregations and eight missions throughout the country designed expressly for homosexuals (estimated total membership: 1,200). A second denomination for homosexuals, the American Orthodox Church* began public services just a year ago with its first congregation, the Church of the Beloved Disciple in Manhattan. Boasting 600 New York City members, the AOC now plans parishes in Tucson, Ariz., and Milwaukee. It has even started its own religious order, called the Oblate Companions...
...REV.) MARK DAY, O.F.M. Los Angeles...