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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1960
Page
6
Perrysville Pa former welterweight boxer Matthew C Daugherty 40 was ordained a Roman Catholic priest among 11 new clergy for the Pittsburgh diocese by Bishop John J Wright He said he was surprised to become a priest noting he used to be a scrapper as a kid.
Morning worship at Morris Presbyterian Church spans three Sundays with Holy Communion led by Rev. Hugo C. Montanus and an interchurch pulpit exchange with Marseilles Brookfield. A patriotic July 3 service will feature about 25 instrumentalists. July 10 pencils in Russel Eaton as student pastor. Services start 10 a.m. with Sunday school at 9 a.m.
Kingston Pennsylvania reports that James W. Carty Jr., a Bethany College journalism professor, urged churches to increase research into human motivations related to religion. He noted industry spends about $11 billion on broad research while churches invest roughly $100,000.
In Minneapolis the American Lutheran church formed by a three way merger distributes 5 009 ram s horns, or shofars, to congregations for founding events during its Year of Jubilee marking its first year of existence.
Rev. Jack Mendelsohn of Boston told Unitarian Universalist religious educators that the Bible is a human book. He urged cherishing it while warning against superstition and idolatry, stressing a need for children to know it as part of their religious heritage but in modern spiritual thinking.
The 1960 Official Catholic Directory shows 5 319 high school students and 27 480 in 67 elementary schools in the Joliet Diocese, with an overall pupil rise of 1 775 from last year. It lists 1 361 at Catholic colleges and universities and 689 studying for the priesthood, supported by 166 priests 594 sisters 37 brothers and 259 lay teachers. Baptisms total 6 358 including 5 876 infants and 482 adults. 1 143 Catholic marriages and 1 325 deaths in 1958. Growth is strongest in DuPage County with nine new parishes since 1949. Sacred Heart Lombard leads with 6 488 parishioners followed by Immaculate Conception Elmhurst 6 277 and St Anthony Joliet 6 000.
The Methodist Church's 236 hospitals and homes served 1,529,913 people last year. Dr. Olin E. Oeschger of Chicago, general secretary of the Board of Hospitals and Homes, announced the figures at a Columbus meeting.
H James Baum son of Mr and Mrs George Baum and a Dartmouth junior attends the summer encampment for 860 cadets at ROTC camp Fort Devens Massachusetts He will receive his commission as a second lieutenant in the U S Army Reserve or Regular Army on completing another encampment At Dartmouth he belongs to Phi Kappa Psi and serves as president of the Dartmouth Outing Club.
Kansas City reports that the Church of the Nazarene property's value has tripled over the past decade from 65 million to more than 200 million dollars, reflecting substantial growth in real estate assets.
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