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The Montana Standard, Butte, Saturday, July 28 1984-5 Moral Majority revives school prayer issue March, all said they now expected a revival of the prayer issue in the Scndtd "We may just try to take the House vehicle," said Hatch, R-Utah, in an interview. He refered to the bill to which the prayer provision is attached as an amendment. Conveniently for Hatch, the bill which he did not commit himself to supporting is destined for the Senate Labor and Human Resources ot silent prayer basically a restatement of existing law, according to members on both sides of the issue in the House. On Wednesday, the House sent the White House separate legislation to permit religious meetings in public high schools. President Reagan is expected to sign that bill into law.

Reagan probably also will sign the prayer measure if it passes the Senate, White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes told Priest's disappearance a shock to his friends RONAN (AP) Authorities said Friday that blood on clothing found near Poison earlier this week matches that of the Rev. John Patrick Kerrigan, a Catholic priest missing since last Friday. Lake County Undersheriff Joe Geldrich said the state crime laboratory reported that the blood on the clothing is type the same as Kerrigan's. But type-A blood is common to nearly half the population. Kerrigan has been the subject of a wide-scale search since be and bis car were reported missing Monday.

Kerrigan, 58, was last seen at a Ronan Bakery the night of July 21. Friends of Kerrigan and Sacred Heart Church parishioners gathered here Thursday night for a special Mass for his welfare, recalling him as the priest with the "broad smile." 1 1 1 -11 1 TWfc i JEHOVAH'S "WITNESSES I The small bnck church was overflowiing with people Thursday, most of whom never had a chance to meet their new pastor. Kerrigan had been scheduled to take over, the parish last Saturday, the day he disappeared. Nine area priests celebrated the special evening Mass, and the Rev. Bernard Sullivan of Columbia Falls delivered a brief sermon in which he asked parishioners to be hopeful.

"We pray that Father Kerrigan is safely in the hands of God," Sullivan said. "There's just a lot of speculation about what happened to him, but we have confidence in our local authorities and faith and con Committee which he chairs. at 3220 St. Ann. The church is the building.

(Staff pho.to). its space 1 Liil i 4l reporters. "The Democrats are trying to get on the train on these issues he outlined," Speakes commented, referring to the President's challenge to the House in his Tuesday night news conference to act on prayer and other measures be favors. Moral Majority legislative director Roy Jones, ACLU legislative counsel Barry Lynn and Sen. Orrin Hatch, the lawmaker who led the fight for the prayer amendment in Kingdom Hall looking to sen about $130,000, he said.

Post said the local church has simply outgrown its old built about 20 years ago. The well-kept building has seating for only about 160 which, Post said, is not nearly enough. Parking has been a chronic problem with room for only 27 cars in the small lot, he noted. The new church, built on 1.7 acres, will have seating for about 246 and will include a lobby, classrooms, a library, restrooms and plenty of "off-street parking. I Sale 0 REV.

JOHN KERRIGAN WASHINGTON (AP) Senators are gearing up for more debate on school prayer, an issue they thought they bad wrestled with to exhaustion in March, as lobbyists on both sides of the volatile issue bugle their troops into ranks again. The Moral Majority said Friday it was organizing a lobbying campaign aimed at senators and the American Civil Liberties Union said it was "alerting its allies and affiliates to fight again on the other side. The Senate appeared finished with the volatile election-year issue March 20 after defeating, 56-44, a constitutional amendment to allow, organized, spoken prayer in public schools. But senators hoping to avoid another prayer confrontation had their hopes dashed Thursday, when the House surprisingly and overwhelmingly voted to allow moments of individual silent prayer in public schools. The vote was 356-50 The Senate now has the legislation, which would prohibit states or school districts from denying "individuals in public schools the op-portunity to participate in moments Let them sing! FORT WORTH, Tex.

(AP) An expert on church music says Southern Baptists are in danger of losing their tradition of a "singing faith" by letting special groups provide the music and song instead of the congregation. Bruce Leafblad, who teaches church music and worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, says Baptists have long been known for expressing their faith through singing, but now. emphasize special music groups. "We started doing music for the people and not letting, them do the music," he says. "We need the music restored to the people" He also says says there is a lack of depth in some music being written for the church these days by "every Tom, Dick and Harry," some of them "recent believers who know little 'Bible, little theology and whose interpretations are thin.

They have diluted a lot of material." WASHINGTON (AP) Russell Shaw, public affairs secretary for the U.S. Catholic Conference and for U.S. Catholic bishops, has been appointed by Pope John Paul II as a consultant to the Vatican's communications office. Another American, Msgr. John P.

Foley of Philadelphia, recently was named to head that office, the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Shaw, wise to the ways and heeds of the communications media, an advocate of openness with it and long trusted as playing straight with American religion reporters, will retain his present post, while also serving as adviser to the Vatican JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Elders John Post, left, and Bob Ersland stand by their old Butte church outgrows fidence in God himself." --r- Law enforcement officials are calling the situation bleak after having found Kerrigan's blood-soaked clothing, including a shirt, shoes and a windbreaker, alongside Montana 35 near Poison earlier. Kerrigan had moved into the Ronan rectory to assume his new post after serving in the Plains parish for the past two years. The Butte native attended schools mere before going to Seattle, where he attended St. Edward's Seminary.

He was ordained in Butte and began work at St. Patrick's Church there in 1954. Since then, he had served 11 parishes throughout the state, including Butte and Dillon. "He loved rural parishes," said the Rev. James Gannon of Steven-sville, who had been assisted by Kerrigan for two years in Dillon in the early 1960s.

"Father Kerrigan loved to cowboy he'd get all dressed up and help brand and work cattle," Gannon said. Bob Deneault, owner of Deneault's Bakery, who was the last person to talk to Kerrigan before he disappeared, said, "It seemed like be was going to be a real asset to the church and a super person for the whole community. This is a heck of a shock Kerrigan, who strode into the bakery in red shorts, a white T-shirt and tennis shoes, told Denault and others there that he was getting acquainted with Ronan in his evening walks. He also told them he planned to attend a funeral and a wedding in Plains the following day. "What I gather, he never got there either," Denault said.

The design for the building came from a Jehovah's Witnesses architect in Connecticut and local church officials took the plans to the Butte-Silver Bow building department to make sure they meet all specifications. Post said the old hall would be ideal for professional office space for a doctor or lawyer and could have many other uses. He said church officials have received a few calls on it but have had no definite offers. Butte's Jehovah Witnesses are trying to sell their Kingdom Hall at 3220 St. Ann because they are going to be moving to spacious new quarters in the 1600 block of Meadowlark Lane.

The method of constructing the new hall is unique. Rather than hiring a contractor and taking months to build the hall, church members from throughout Montana will converge on the site in October and throw up the building in two days, according to Elder John Post. The cost for materials will be Singing for mission The fifth Sunday sing-spiration of the churches in Butte, in support of the Butte Rescue Mission, will be held this Sunday evening at the first Nazarene Church, Macia and Texas, at 7 p.m. Sponsoring churches are Evangelical Convenant, First Baptist, Old Fashion Baptist, Free Methodist, Church in the Valley, Christian and Missionary Alliance and First Nazarene. AH other churches are invited to participate, and the sing-spiration is open to the public.

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M.D. FACS ttaesie YdDium '(ciicdikc Churches were among Butte's earliest buildings. Butte has scores of churches, and thousands of residents are able to find peace and comfort in these edifices daily. A free press, right to assemble, right to petition and freedom to worship. Another inalienable right Standard giihjXkmtana V- 7.