Episcopal Press and News
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Episcopal News Service. October 23, 1980 [80371]
The Ven. Erwin M. Soukup, Editor of Advance, Diocese of Chicago
Heard at the meeting of the House of Bishops in Chattanooga:
Archbishop Edward W. Scott of Canada: "Wind is not tidy. The Holy Spirit is not tidy. Which perhaps explains why the Church is not tidy."
George E. Reedy, former press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson: "Television reveals a person; it exposes the person who smiles only from the nose down. . . The bias of a journalist is less important than the bias of the reader."
The Very Rev. Alan B. Webster, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London: "Religious Freudian slips are often clues to divine messages."
Jesse L. Jackson of Operation PUSH (Addressing young people): "Don't put dope in your veins; put hope in your brains."
Words heard: "Impacting;" "Pastoring;" "Dialoguing;" "Eucharize;" "Sophisticate;" "Legitimate. " Every word used as a verb!
Cardinal Leo Josef Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium: "The gift of the Holy Spirit to a bishop is the charism to discern charisma."
Stranger who approached the red-shirted Bishop Calvin O. Schofield of Southeast Florida at the airport: "What are you? A disco priest?"
Retired Bishop Stanley H. Atkins of Eau Claire: "Selling arms to undeveloped countries in Africa is the most shameful thing since the slave trade. "
Retired Bishop Hal R. Gross of Oregon: "Resolutions usually fall on their whereases."
Bishop John S. Spong of Newark: "Prejudice dies when it becomes too expensive to support."