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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1978
Page
8
Religious leaders discuss the first test tube birth and the moral questions it raises. The event prompts calls for church statements and an international dialogue next year in Boston on values guiding future laboratory creation.
Iowa religious leaders including Rev. George Carlson of Cedar Rapids First Lutheran and Rev. Judith Urquhart of People's Unitarian weigh ethics and theology of test-tube fertilization. They discuss spiritual guidance, risks to marriage, and the role of science versus divine will.
The Rev. Bruce Owens is named pastor at Church of God of Prophecy in Sioux City, succeeding Rev. Boots. St. Mark's hosts an English vesper with Rev. Lay from London. Film events include The New Chuck Colson and The Power of Prayer at local churches. Diaconate information sessions held in Catholic parishes. ordinations planned for Archdiocese of Dubuque. Cedar Hills suspend some services, 119th Aubur n anniversary marked with a potluck and quilt raffle. Cranial Aglow meeting at Coe College. Hillside Wesleyan to screen Held For Ransom at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
UPI reports Christians in the United States watch CELAM III with concern as Latin American bishops prepare for a fall meeting. Since Medellin 1968, the church has framed a critique of wealth inequality and defended liberation theology as a path to social change amid military regimes and landowner power.
The article notes growing odds that a non Italian could become pope, with 58 non Europeans among 115 eligible voters and Italians declining to 22 percent. It lists candidates from the Netherlands England Argentina France Austria Algeria Brazil and Italy as possible contenders. It also mentions Puebla Mexico and the Medellin era shaping church debates and two U.S. observers to attend.
Two area churches Immaculate Conception at 859 Third Ave SE and St Josephs at 14th Street and Brockman Avenue Marion hold special 5 15 p m masses tonight for Pope Paul VI in mourning service acknowledging the late pope.
Mount Mercy College offers a fall course for Catholic religious educators titled Christian Ministry: Sacraments. Taught by Sister Kathryn Thornton, the class meets 8 to 9 20 p m on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting Sept 6 and covers post Vatican II sacramental rites for religious education formation. Thornton chairs Mercy Spiritual Center and has extensive Archdiocese of Dubuque experience.
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