Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 18, 1992 TAG: 9201180337
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EPISCOPALIANS TURN THE CLOCK WAY BACK
Episcopalians turn the clock way backMembers of Christ Episcopal Church in Roanoke will worship as people did 100 years ago in a special service Sunday that begins the parish's celebration of its centennial year.
The 1892-style service of Holy Communion will be at 10:30 a.m.
Christ Church was founded in 1892 and has been housed in three buildings since then. The one now, at 1101 Frankin Road S.W., has been the church's home since 1917.
The congregation plans a series of events throughout the year to celebrate the church's first century of service to the community, said the Rev. Deborah Hentz Hunley, rector. -Staff report
Woman's mission chief for Baptists retires
Kathryn Bullard, director of Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary work in Virginia since 1975, is retiring at the end of this month.
Bullard directed the reorganization of the mission's agency in which most Southern Baptist congregations participate. This resulted in a rise in giving to home and foreign missions from six-figure to seven-figure amounts over 15 years.
Bullard, who worked in Richmond, also is credited with the establishment of a state conference center known as Camp Little Cross Roads in Amherst County for women's and children's gatherings and with inspiring increased attendance at women's meetings at the Virginia Southern Baptist Eagle Eyrie center.
Bullard's successor has not been chosen, according to a staff member of the Virginia Baptist offices. A search committee is at work. -Staff report
Poll says Presbyterians pray privately LOUISVILLE - Nearly all Presbyterians pray privately, according to a poll of 5,400 members and clergy of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Only 1 percent said they never pray.
Satisfaction was linked to the frequency of praying. The more often and regular the praying, the more likely members were found to be "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their prayer life.
Asked if they had ever had a "particularly powerful religious insight or awakening that changed the direction of your life?" 80 percent of clergy said yes, while 40 percent of laity did so.
- Associated Press AME Zion bishop honored CHICAGO - African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Vinton Anderson of St. Louis has been awarded Ebony magazine's Black Achievement Award for Religion in recognition of his being the first black American elected a president of the World Council of Churches. He is one of a six-member presidium.
- Associated Press
Catholic reformists hail new married priest
YONKERS, N.Y. - Roman Catholic reformist groups are applauding last Saturday's ordination of a married, former Episcopal priest as a priest in the Catholic Church. But they also criticized church policy.
While the church "grants a married priesthood to a few it denies it to all others," said a joint statement by Association for the Rights of Catholic in the Church, the Renewal Coordinating Community and CORPUS.
The latter group is made up of Roman Catholic priests suspended from ministry because they married.
"We fully support Father Bruce Bowes as a married priest," the statement said, noting that about 60 married former Episcopal and Lutheran priests now have become married Roman Catholic priests.
"At the same time there are thousands of Catholic priests who have married and who are forbidden to act as priests," the statement said, urging the church to make optional its rule of celibacy for priests.
The statement called the policy a contradiction, saying, "To its own priests the church says you may not be married priests, while to former Episcopal and Lutheran priests the church says you may be married priests." - Associated Press