Word: sotolongo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About two miles away, at St. Stephen's parish in Boston's South End, Cuban-born Father Pastor Sotolongo, 29, tries a person-to-person approach. No civic crusader, he spends most of his 20-hour working day quietly trying to provide the basic material needs-food, clothing, shelter-of his largely Puerto Rican parish. "The people who come to see me," he says, "are emergency cases. They don't have time to go through all the red tape and answer all the questions to get aid from the city...
...Functional Parish." Slum priests freely adapt the worship of the church to fit the needs of their parishes. Boston's Father Sotolongo offers his Latin-American congregation plenty of liturgical splendor, with vestments, incense and sung Masses. Father Cromey in San Francisco holds evangelical preaching-and-singing services in housing projects and on street corners. Pragmatists rather than radicals, these priests are searching for new concepts of what the church should be. The Rev. James Jones, 36, of Chicago, for example, believes that Protestantism must create a new kind of "functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father...