Word: rev
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...workshops will hopefully be able to produce a working document to be used in alleviating the situation of mass misery, hunger, and suffering in Roxbury and the rest of the country," Rev. Virgil A. Wood, one of the organizers of the Tribe, said yesterday...
...sooner was the Rev. Ian Paisley elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament as the spokesman of Ulster's right-wing Protestants than he turned his victory speech last spring into an attack on the head of the Protestant government. Said Paisley of moderate Unionist Prime Minister James D. Chichester-Clark: "I'll make it so hot for him that he'll want to retire." Last week Paisley achieved that goal when hard-liners threw Chichester-Clark...
...Nowadays young people develop more quickly than they did in my day," says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded...
...drawing card at the annual fund-raising dinner. So the choice of Bob Hope for the Family of Man Award of the New York City Council of Churches seemed especially gratifying. "The $150-a-plate award dinner is a major source of income," noted the executive director, the Rev. Dan M. Potter. Last week, though, some 20 young ministers led an angry anti-Hope revolt at a meeting of the council's General Assembly. "There is nothing in Mr. Hope's record showing public commitment to the three pressing issues that confront the council-poverty, racial justice...
Though Catholics dominate in most anti-abortion groups, the campaign has gone well beyond sectarian boundaries. The California Mobilization for the Unnamed is headed by an agnostic Jew. The chief of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest who is chaplain to the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, says his involvement is a natural outgrowth of his other liberal beliefs. "Men who have been with me in Selma and who opposed war with me and have known me to speak out against capital punishment could...