|
SUIT SETTLED OVER MINISTER'S REMOVAL CHURCH OFFICIALS, DOCTOR TO PAY UNDISCLOSED SUM
|
More than 13 years after being removed as minister of Old
West Church in Boston, Rev. William E. Alberts has won a financial
settlement from the three men -- his former psychiatrist and two
United Methodist Church officials -- he sued over his forced
retirement.
Rev. Alberts claimed in his 1975 lawsuit that Bishop Edward G.
Carroll and Rev. John E. Barclay, a district superintendent,
engineered his removal in 1973 after prompting Dr. Donald T.
Devine, the psychiatrist, to tell th...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
Scituate priest denied relationship with teen boy; Church officials sided with pastor, decided allegations could not be substantiated
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; Patriot Ledger staff and news services BOSTON - The letters began with an affectionate greeting, "Dear Brown Eyes," and contained proclamations of love and what ...
|
|
Rev. St. George Crosse won't give up his fight
Baltimore Afro-American
; Anthony W. McCarthy Baltimore Afro-American 06-24-1995 Rev. St. George Crosse won't give up his fight. The Rev. St. George Crosse III, a conservative and controversial local personality often heard on radio and seen on television, said in an interview this week at the AFRO office, that he was
|
|
|
SUIT SETTLED OVER MINISTER'S REMOVAL CHURCH OFFICIALS, DOCTOR TO PAY UNDISCLOSED SUM
The Boston Globe
; More than 13 years after being removed as minister of Old West Church in Boston, Rev. William E. Alberts has won a financial settlement from the three men -- his former psychiatrist and two United Methodist Church officials -- he sued over his forced retirement. Rev. Alberts claimed in his 1975
|
|
Rev. Moon urges clergy to tout marriage.(Metropolitan)(District)
The Washington Times
; ... address to more than 2,000 people at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. At a news conference earlier yesterday, several of the estimated 400 clergy ... described the tour as a substantial interfaith movement, and news reports around the country typically have noted it for drawing ...
|
 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
|
Substantial evidence led to naming nine priests, diocese says [Corrected 07/19/05] ; They are among 25 dead church officials accused of sexually abusing children in Maine over many years.
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; John Richardson Staff Writer Portland Press Herald (Maine) 07-17-2005 Substantial evidence led to naming nine priests, diocese says [Corrected 07/19/05] ; They are among 25 dead church officials accused of sexually abusing children in Maine over many years. Byline: John Richardson Staff Writer
|
|
Priests who were victims as children: Some, like Rev. Gary Hayes, hold on to faith and follow the calling
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; CLOVERPORT, Ky. - The Rev. Gary Hayes can't remember a time when he didn't want to be a priest. As a kid, he and his four brothers would play "mass" the way other boys played "army." "We used to make vestments out of bedsheets and use NECCO Wafers as the host," Hayes, 49, recalled from his modest
|
|
|
Weymouth pastor, leader, dead at 47; Sacred Heart's Rev. Sutton remembered as an inspiring priest, devoted friend
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ... archdiocese, will be responsible for naming Sutton's replacement. Officials with the archdiocese could not be reached for comment. As news of the Rev. Sutton's death spread, several parishioners visited the church to offer prayers and express sorrow at his passing ...
|
|
|
Anguished cries fell on deaf ears Despite evidence, church muffled charges that Rev. Porter sexually abused children
The Boston Globe
; On an otherwise ordinary spring day in 1963, a young mother in North Attleborough was suddenly confronted with every parent's nightmare. Her son, a 12-year-old altar boy, had just confided that he had been sexually molested. Even more shocking was the identity of the alleged molester: Rev. James R.
|
|
|
Redefining the good life The American Dream is usually seen as a good job and a comfortable home. Now, young pastors like Rev. Shelly Stackhouse, of Norwell, are trying to make a quest for spirituality an essential part of it.
The Boston Globe
; Along a sleepy stretch of Main Street, in Norwell, 13 people have gathered on a cool October night at the United Church of Christ. The men and women in the room, who are in their 30s and 40s, are religious consumers, "church shoppers," as some call themselves, yearning for a spiritual haven but
|
|
|
Rev. Robert Bullock, pastor, priest leader, interfaith champion
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; SHARON - The Rev. Robert W. Bullock, 75, a Boston area priest leader, died Saturday from metastatic cancer. The Rev. Bullock was the longtime pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, the president of the Boston Priests Forum, and a leading advocate of improved Catholic-Jewish relations. The Rev. Bullock is
|