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Article: Cardinal's Inquiry Ruffles D.C. Parish; Meetings Probe Liturgical Practices at Holy Trinity
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- The Washington Post
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- December 9, 1997
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About 9 a.m. every Sunday, a burst of one-way traffic on Key
Bridge brings Roman Catholics from Northern Virginia to Holy Trinity
Church in Georgetown. They are drawn to the Jesuit-run parish's
vibrant liturgy, literate sermons, activist membership and easy
acceptance of divorced worshipers, homosexuals and others not always
warmly welcomed in certain religious circles.
At a time when pews at many other Catholic churches are
emptying, Masses at Holy Trinity are standing room only.
But that Roman Catholic parish, the oldest in the nation's
capital and the one where the first Catholic president, John F.
Kennedy, worshiped, is not nearly so popular with Cardinal James A.
Hickey, the ...