Almost 100 years ago, historian George W. Drisko described the Centre Street Congregational Church in Machias this way: “The Church was dedicated free from debt; the pride of the town, because of its size and beautiful architectural outline,” Drisko said. “No one thing ever accomplished… Read More
MACHIAS – The structural beauty of Centre Street Congregational Church is obvious from the moment a visitor crests College Hill on the way into town and catches sight of the magnificent white steeple. But the community services that endear the church to people in the… Read More
The list of people required to report suspected abuse to the state Department of Human Services is getting longer. Clergy were already required under Maine statute to report suspected child abuse or neglect. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
‘A message of hope’ Old Town native youngest man in nearly a decade to be ordained a priest in Maine
The Rev. Paul LaBree can’t point to one moment in his life and say, “That’s when I knew I wanted to be a priest.” For the 31-year-old Old Town native, it was a longer process – a journey in which the destination was not clear… Read More
SACO – Charles Boothby of Bangor and Kent Price of Orland have been chosen president and vice president respectively of the Northeast District of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. They were selected earlier this month during the district’s annual meeting at the Unitarian Universalist… Read More
PORTLAND – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has announced ordination plans for three priests and a deacon. The diocese, based in Portland, comprises all of Maine’s Roman Catholic churches. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
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The banners weren’t enough. The photographs only told part of the story. And the video not only had been seen so often that it had lost its shock value, it only documented the beginning of the story. Artist Jessica Stammen yearned for a way to… Read More
BANGOR – Brenda Crudo was in the fourth grade when her Girl Scout leader asked troop members to mime what they wanted to be when they grew up. The Roman Catholic schoolgirl stood before her peers and consecrated an imaginary Eucharist, a rite practiced by male priests. Read More
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BANGOR – James Bean wonders whether evangelist Jerry Falwell and the Dalai Lama have anything in common. It’s the kind of question Bean, 41, likes to pose through his religious radio program that airs Sunday mornings on Husson College’s WHSN-FM 89.3. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
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The Maine Council of Churches and Bangor Theological Seminary will sponsor a daylong conference on clergy misconduct Friday at the First Congregational Church in South Portland. The two organizations held a similar event 10 years ago. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
BANGOR – An ordination service is planned today for two Episcopal lay leaders. Jessie Cookson Drysdale of Weston and Joan Nelson Preble of Ellsworth will be ordained as deacons by the Rt. Rev. Chilton R. Knudsen, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Put on your shoes and head to downtown Bangor today for a peek, inside and out, at 11 old friends. A 21/2-mile walking tour of 10 churches and one synagogue will reveal some of their secrets and histories. Plus, any donations will go toward supporting the… Read More
The Rev. Susan Latimer poured the oil of unction into a brown vanilla bottle. It looked as if the Episcopal priest were taking home a sample of a special salad oil instead of the sacred oil she will use to anoint ailing members of her… Read More
BANGOR – An early Christian tradition is getting an ecumenical treatment this Lent at the former Unitarian Church. A Passion play – the story of Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection – will be presented five more times through next weekend at the Union Street Brick… Read More
Here is a list of some of the leading Roman Catholic bishops who will be eligible to retire by the end of the year: . Bishop Robert Banks, Green Bay, Wis. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
A record number of America’s Roman Catholic bishops are eligible for retirement this year, starting a gradual shift in leadership as the U.S. church seeks to recover from the clerical molestation crisis. Tuesday’s announcement that the Most Rev. Michael Cote, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese… Read More
What does a bishop do? A “bishop” is usually the pastoral leader of a diocese, or grouping of parishes. In early church history, just the bishop presided over the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, but as the church grew, priests increasingly assumed that role. Today, it is still the… Read More
A Catholic diocese in Connecticut is getting a bishop who is relatively young, fluent in French, and in the pool of traditional priests from which Rome likes to draw its bishops. In fact, when Michael Cote was announced as Maine’s new auxiliary on May 10,… Read More
It was the garish postcards of the Hindu gods he remembered seeing as a child that inspired Krishna Akilesh as he worked on a set of ceramic tiles depicting events in the Christian Bible. As an adult, he still sees their faces when he conjures… Read More
GARDINER – When Patricia Phillips was working on her master’s thesis about pastoral counseling in 1986, she wrote about the persistent decline in the number of Catholic priests. Phillips is now a parish coordinator at St. Joseph’s Church in Gardiner, and her job responsibilities have… Read More
CAPE ELIZABETH – Members of the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church are helping female former jail inmates rejoin the world after being behind bars. Three women are now in the mentoring program, called My Sister’s Keeper. The church hopes to expand its program and get… Read More
What is the sound of 12 people meditating? Not much: There’s the steady breathing that seems somehow like one breath, as though it would take more energy than you possess to exhale out of rhythm with the others in the room. A stomach gurgles, a… Read More
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BANGOR – Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno on Monday urged ministers “to weave the fabric of community around people at risk” and to comfort those “touched by evil and bring them home to God” at the Bangor Theological Seminary Convocation. Reno, who was the… Read More
BANGOR – Members of Redeemer Lutheran Church were stunned to learn that Thelma D. Anderson had left the congregation $10,000 in her will. The Brewer resident did not attend the Essex Street church, and no one in the congregation, including those who have been members… Read More
The World Church of the Creator, the white supremacist group that organized the anti-Somali rally in Lewiston last weekend, lays dubious claim to its name. Legally, the Illinois-based group recently lost a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a religious organization in Oregon that uses the… Read More
BANGOR – Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will be the keynote speaker at the Bangor Theological Seminary’s 98th convocation, which also will include daily talks by a Georgia minister who has been called one of the 10 most effective speakers in the English language. Read More
Not too long ago, it was a daily struggle to make minyan at Etz Chaim, one of Portland’s oldest synagogues. Membership had so dwindled at the synagogue on Congress Street that gathering 10 adult Jewish males – the number needed to hold the daily prayer… Read More
Jesus didn’t spend a lot of time with women. Stories in the Christian New Testament, however, tell of three – all named Mary – who inspired him. On Sunday, the 83-year-old mother of a Bangor pastor will portray them in a one-woman show at the… Read More
BANGOR – A Massachusetts minister says he will use dinosaur bones to teach creationism when he visits the Neighborhood Church on Sunday. The Rev. Paul E. Veit, pastor of Haverhill Alliance Church in Haverhill, Mass., began collecting fossils about three years ago to enhance his… Read More
ORRINGTON – The Rev. Robert Carlson will deliver his last sermon as pastor of the East Orrington Congregational Church on Sunday. The congregation also will burn its $500,000 30-year mortgage, which it was able to pay off in seven years, according to the retiring pastor. Read More
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BELFAST – Singer Amy Robbins believes that underlying the Christmas story is a central message: We are all meant to bring great love into the world. From Mary’s encounter with the angels to her journey to Bethlehem, to the three kings’ gifts carried to the… Read More
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BANGOR – A Moravian love feast will be held during the 10 a.m. Sunday worship service at Hammond Street Congregational Church. A love feast isn’t quite a feast. It celebrates love of humanity. The congregation says it will be a service dedicated to agape, the… Read More
BANGOR – It’s the simplest pleasures we remember during the Christmas season – the spicy breath of fresh-cut balsam, the day-by-day suspense of the Advent calendar, the suppressed hilarity of wrapping lumpy packages behind the dining room door. Many households include the magical ritual of… Read More
BANGOR – The Jewish Community Council of Bangor, which comprises Beth Abraham Synagogue, Congregation Beth El and Congregation Beth Israel, is sponsoring its first artist-in-residence program. David Nachmanoff, a California-based singer and songwriter, will participate in events Dec. 1-9. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
MACHIAS – Centre Street Congregational Church says it is on its way to raising $425,000 to restore the congregation’s historic home with the theme “where church and community meet.” The campaign began Oct. 27 and has already led to more than $172,000 in pledges, according… Read More
BANGOR – The pulpit was Catholic. The altar was Lutheran. The minister was an Assemblies of God preacher. And the building belonged to the Odd Fellows. Hope Lutheran Church on outer Union Street is joyfully furnishing its newly acquired home with castoffs in a secondhand… Read More
The Rev. David James Lucey will be installed as rector of the Parish of St. Mary and St. Jude at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea, 20 South Shore Road, Northeast Harbor. Following the institution, a reception is planned at the Neighborhood House,… Read More
ORONO – Since its first service Easter Sunday, a new congregation has almost doubled in size, organized a praise band and hired a full-time pastor. It appears to be succeeding in drawing a mix of university faculty, staff and students as well as Orono residents to services at… Read More
BANGOR – Episcopalians answered their bishop’s call to love and sacrifice at their annual convention last weekend. As a result, larger congregations will “sacrifice” a bit more so that smaller ones can experience some financial relief. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CARIBOU – A banner started it all. When Philip Turner returned from an eight-month motor home trip across the United States and Canada, he noticed a banner at the Gray Memorial United Methodist Church that honored the Rev. James Gray. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
The fact that her husband grew up on Deer Isle and her son settled there as an adult wasn’t enough to convince Fran Greenlaw that it was the place to retire. What tipped the scale 15 years ago was St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church,… Read More
VAN BUREN – Simplicity with elegance – that was the goal for parishioners who have completed a renovation and restoration of their 50-year-old red brick church in the St. Bruno-St. Remi Roman Catholic parish. The project, costing more than $425,000, culminated nearly nine years of… Read More
HERMON – Growing from 70 to 250 members in five years, the Hermon Baptist Church was feeling a little cramped inside. The 133-year-old congregation decided in June on a $500,000 expansion “because of the growing congregation, to provide [for the] recreational and social needs of… Read More
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Looking for the preacher’s wife? She’s that retiring, yet tireless woman, kind, yet reticent to suggest an opinion not in sync with her husband. Isn’t she the Sunday school teacher, disappearing after the church service starts, only to reappear with her flock on special holidays?… Read More
Although her role in the Tremont Congregational Church in Bass Harbor did not come with a job description, Nola Buchanan, wife of the Rev. Wayne Buchanan, works in the church too. With training in social work and human development, she has always been interested in… Read More
Wallace Reed, husband of the Rev. Sandra Reed, pastor of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church, and Ted Fletcher, husband of the Rev. Ann Kidder, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Southwest Harbor, acknowledge that the demands on them are likely not as severe as on their female… Read More
While many spouses of clergy feel that they are not unsung heroes, they certainly face challenges that few outside the clergy would understand. FOCUS, or Families of Clergy United in Support, is a national organization that recognizes these challenges. Bonnie Studdeford is the national organizational… Read More
Christian scholars in the early church argued endlessly over the meaning of biblical text – and sometimes spent decades poring over one particular passage. About 25 of their contemporary counterparts converged on Bangor Theological Seminary a few days ago for an international conference, where they… Read More
BANGOR – The public is invited to talks and discussion with Jehovah’s Witnesses from northern and central Maine as they gather this month at the Bangor Auditorium. Witnesses from northern Maine, which includes an area stretching as far south as Belfast, will meet Saturday and… Read More
PORTLAND – Fewer people are giving money to Bishop Joseph Gerry’s annual fund-raising campaign for social service and diocese-related programs this year. But those who are giving are donating more. Bill Richards, head of the Bishop’s Appeal, said the priest sex abuse scandal has contributed… Read More
The Pentecostal Lighthouse in Town Hill plans an installation service at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, for the Rev. Michael D. Cox as pastor. The Rev. Rick Stoops, Maine district superintendent for the United Pentecostal Church International, will give Cox his official pastoral charge. Cox and his family… Read More
The first time Nellie Guptill attended lunch for 12 guests at the Friars’ Bakehouse in Bangor, she thought “someone else needs this more than me.” By the end of the meal, she’d changed her mind. Although the 70-year-old Hermon resident gets out for lunch with… Read More
This Rosh Hashana will be distinctive for Beth Israel Synagogue, says Rabbi David Cantor. The spiritual leader of Bangor’s Conservative synagogue says the traditional blowing of the ram’s horn, or shofar, won’t occur on the first day of the holiday, which begins at sundown Sept. Read More
St. Joseph Healthcare has announced the appointment of the Rev. John Austin as St. Joseph Hospital chaplain in Bangor. Austin served as chaplain at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for three years. Before that assignment, he served as assistant to the Rev. Claude Albert… Read More
They were young Americans, living in the shadow of the Vatican, learning to be priests. They struggled with homesickness. But Rome was magical, and the pasta irresistible. At pranzo, the midday meal, the conversation flowed with the wine. Then, a teacher said something that silenced… Read More
The Episcopal bishop of Maine will participate in a special worship service next month when the Washington National Cathedral recognizes the state’s leaders and residents. Nearly 250 worshippers from Maine are expected to visit the cathedral for the event, during which the Maine state flag… Read More
The Rev. Stephanie Salinas was directing movers and trying to unpack boxes at her new Bangor home. Just when the newly ordained minister thought she was making headway, the doorbell would ring and there would be a few more boys gathered on her front steps. Read More
Although they’ve never met, Henry R. Bachmann of Port Wentworth, Ga., and Frank L. Fitzpatrick of Cranston, R.I., have a lot in common. Both men, now in their early 50s, were molested by Roman Catholic priests in the mid-1960s when they were altar boys. For… Read More
A Bangor native returned home this spring to found a new church and extend the ministry of an Arizona congregation. The Rev. Paul Warf led services at Life Changers Community Church on Outer Hammond Street for the first time in June. More than 40 worshippers… Read More
A volunteer group based on Mount Desert Island is looking to establish private Episcopal schools in the Bangor, Camden, Portland and Lewiston-Auburn areas. The schools proposed by Episcopal Schools of Maine would offer 12- to 13-hour days, with time allotted for students to clean the… Read More
AUGUSTA – An internationally recognized expert on trauma treatment will lead a team of eight helping professionals in a special retreat Aug. 16-18 to work with survivors of clergy abuse and their families. The retreat, titled “Restoration, Reconciliation and Renewal: Healing Spiritual Trauma,” is expected… Read More
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It looked more like a rock concert, but some of the 350 pilgrims from Maine sat quietly Saturday night, clustered on ground covers and in collapsible chairs, the flames of their white candles flickering in the warm breeze. Others collapsed on sleeping bags. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
TORONTO – Bishop Joseph J. Gerry left behind the sex abuse scandal that has dominated the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland for the past six months to celebrate Mass on Saturday morning at a hotel with more than 200 young people and their adult leaders who traveled to… Read More
TORONTO – The currency of World Youth Day 2002 was not Canada’s colorful bills sporting pictures of prime ministers, the queen and the common loon. More valuable than money were the pins, buttons, stickers, tattoos, rosaries and T-shirts the 300,000 pilgrims constantly traded. By the… Read More
Everywhere she went in Toronto, Victoria Perez Rubio, 25, kept running into people she met at World Youth Day in Paris two years ago. A native of Cadiz, Spain, she has spent the past few months visiting friends in Bar Harbor. She will head home… Read More
Marie Lint of Old Town was right up front. Pressed against 4-foot-high portable fencing, she watched as Pope John Paul II cruised by on his way to an open-air Mass at a huge stage in Toronto, where more than 200,000 young people from 170 nations… Read More
TORONTO – There they were, sitting or standing under the trees in Coronation Park along Lake Ontario, speaking quietly with a solitary person, then offering prayers and a blessing. Priests from 170 nations heard confession in the most informal of circumstances during this week’s World… Read More
Unlike his fellow pilgrims, Adam Metivier of Old Town is sleeping late at World Youth Day. The 15-year-old gets up at 5:30 a.m. six days a week to deliver the Bangor Daily News. In Toronto, he’s been able to sleep until 7 a.m. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
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TORONTO – Officially, the top pilgrim traveling from Maine to Canada for World Youth Day 2002 with Pope John Paul II is the Rev. Robert Vaillancourt, but his fellow pilgrims just call him Father Bob. The pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Madawaska… Read More
ST. AGATHA – Just two days before his group leaves for a weeklong jaunt to Toronto for the biennial World Youth Conference, 18-year-old Brandon Berce was getting excited Friday about the prospect of seeing and hearing Pope John Paul II. The young man will join… Read More
A performing arts camp inside Trinitarian Parish Church in Castine doesn’t seem wacky or even innovative to Aynne Ames. After all, theater began as a way to explain and spread religious ideas before the written word, said Ames, a former theater director who teaches at… Read More
BANGOR – The heart of Bangor’s oldest institution is getting a face-lift. The David Nelson Beach Chapel at Bangor Theological Seminary was built in 1859. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and Junior Asparagus are venerable vegetables stepping out from the backyard garden this summer and into the hearts and minds of Maine kids participating in vacation Bible schools. As characters in a video, a live touring musical or a… Read More
The new pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bangor is a former banker who might soon be seen rollerblading to the Center Street church. The Rev. Stephanie Ann Salinas graduated in May from New Brunswick (N.J.) Theological Seminary, where she was named the Hageman… Read More
BANGOR – The Methodists stayed with the Lutherans to help the Salvation Army. In a burst of ecumenical enthusiasm, about 30 Wisconsin Methodists this week wound up their work in Bangor, where they helped the area Salvation Army move its Center Street thrift store and… Read More
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HAMPDEN – Hampden Highlands United Methodist Church was to mark the opening of an addition to the church at 44 Kennebec Road with a consecration service Friday. The Rev. Debra J. Hanson, pastor, said the space was added to the rear of the white-frame church. Read More
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SINCLAIR – David Gagnon traveled 10 hours by bus to tell his side of the story about three years of sexual abuse by a priest 22 years ago. For 90 minutes Saturday afternoon, Gagnon, 37, met privately with 12 members of the council that represents… Read More
The nation’s best-selling Bible, the New International Version, is about to get an update using gender-neutral wording, despite criticism of the idea from conservatives. The cautious move by the International Bible Society and Zondervan Publishing House comes seven years after a Bangor scholar was the… Read More
The new pastor of Lakeview Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Rockport comes from a church in Northern Ireland. The Rev. Stephen J. Tracey was installed as pastor this fall. He had been pastor of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Omagh, Northern Ireland, and also served as editor of that… Read More
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On a sultry summer afternoon last week, two dozen youngsters gathered on the lawn and playground of Downeast Elementary School in Bangor, some on blankets to hear a Bible story, others in the sun singing and signing about God’s plan for them at an outdoor Vacation Bible School. Read More
Summer in Maine brings with it jammed highways, crowded sidewalks and packed beaches, even for churchgoers. Christians do not put their faith on vacation just because they have escaped the working world for a few weeks, and worshippers far from home attend as many as… Read More
BANGOR – The joke going around Beth Israel is that Cantor Deborah Marlowe will change her name to “Rabbi” to match the synagogue’s new spiritual leader’s – they would then be “Cantor Rabbi” and “Rabbi Cantor.” David Cantor and his family will arrive next month… Read More
BANGOR – Bangor Theological Seminary has been virtually the only Christian institution of higher learning in northern Maine for 182 years. That will change over the next 18 months when a new seminary and four-year college are expected to begin offering classes with assistance from one of the… Read More
St. Martin’s an ‘Excellent’ Church ‘Guide to Best Places and Practices’ puts Maine churches near top
PALMYRA – The congregation at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church is not sure how the church got listed in the book, “Excellent Protestant Congregations: The Guide to the Best Places and Practices,” but there it is. The Rev. Janet E. McAuley, 75, vicar of the church… Read More
INDIAN ISLAND – The first Europeans to meet the Wabanaki people were French Jesuit priests, known as “black robes,” who came to what is now Maine to convert the Indians to Christianity. They were so successful that for generations the Catholic church was the only… Read More
The Rev. Paul Kerns watches the Earth slowly come alive from the rectory dining room window next to St. Ann Catholic Church. The 55-year-old priest often begins a busy day watching the Penobscot River. One morning late last year, three distinct columns of mist rose… Read More
ST. AGATHA – Armand Gagnon, a retired potato inspector, walks a few miles bright and early every morning. On Tuesday, he may very well have saved the local Catholic church from destruction. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More