Ever since San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike had challenged Roman Catholic presidential aspirants to speak out on the question of governmental sponsorship of birth-control information for other countries (TIME, Dec. 7), every non-Catholic with a pulpit seemed eager to get a word in. And Bishop Pike himself returned to the fray.
An overflow crowd of worshipers last week watched the 46-year-old bishop enter San Francisco's Grace Cathedral at the end of the procession, carrying his golden crosier and thoughtfully blinking his eyes behind his black-rimmed spectacles.
Minutes later, he was in the pulpit. "Responsible choice as to the number and...
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