The names, addresses and phone numbers of...

The names, addresses and phone numbers of 2,400 sisters are printed in the just-published 1989 Los Angeles Catholic Directory--the first time that the nuns have been included in the annual sourcebook for parishes, priests and organizations of the three-county archdiocese.

When Sister Mary Glennon assumed her duties as the archdiocese’s first female vicar for women religious (sisters) a year ago, she learned from the Sisters’ Council, which meets monthly, that inclusion in the directory was the advisory body’s No. 1 priority.

Besides the lack of recognition that exclusion implied, Glennon said that a practical reason existed for listing nuns from Santa Maria to Pomona.

“In the past, sisters all lived in particular convents and those were easy to look up,” she said. “But now the new ministries of sisters are scattered all over and they have to live where their ministry is.”

The 192-page directory ($12) is published by The Tidings, the archdiocesan newspaper.

BREAKFAST

The Rev. Thomas Kilgore Jr., longtime pastor of the Los Angeles Second Baptist Church (1963-1986), will be the main speaker Wednesday at the annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast in Los Angeles co-sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles. One of a series of public events commemorating the birth and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 8 a.m. breakfast at Trinity Baptist Church is expected to attract more than 400 people. Participating groups range from the Board of Rabbis and the Buddhist Sangha Council to the Greek Orthodox Church and the Bahai faith.

DATES

At Pepperdine University, Os Guiness, executive director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a group promoting appreciation for religious freedom under the First Amendment, will give a series of four lectures Monday and Tuesday, including a 7:30 p.m. talk Monday at the Stauffer Chapel on “The American Future--Four Possible Outcomes.”

In a lecture series explaining the stances of Reform Judaism, Wilshire Boulevard Temple will begin a Friday evening series of lectures by prominent Reform Jewish leaders starting next week with Leon A. Jick, chairman of Brandeis University’s Near Eastern and Judaic studies department. Later speakers include Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College (Feb. 17) and Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (March 10).

Other lectures: Baptist Pastor Jewell E. Smith of Orlando, Fla., on the history of the English Bible, at 6 p.m. Sunday at Faith Baptist Church in Canoga Park. His collection of ancient manuscripts and old Bibles will be on exhibit that night and Monday through Wednesday evenings. . . . Provocative journalist Yehuda Lev, associate editor of the Jewish Journal, on the “The Israel Enigma,” 8 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Santa Monica. . . . Noted evangelical theologian J. I. Packer, on “The Relevance of God in the Close of the 20th Century,” 7 p.m. Wednesday at Biola University’s Calvary Chapel in La Mirada.