Religion: Teamwork in North Carolina

One evening last week, 15 men and women came to the rectory of the Infant of Prague Church in Jacksonville, N.C. (pop. 3,960) seeking instruction in the Roman Catholic faith. What brought them there was "frontline" evangelism and the part-time partnership of two priests.

Father Ambrose F. Rohrbacher, 49, is a grey-haired man from Milwaukee with a quiet voice and a shy manner. Behind his spectacles his eyes peer tentatively, and he looks far more of a scholar than an evangelist. Yet 15 years ago his church gave him one of the toughest U.S....

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