Bishop Asks No Alcohol at Church Functions

ALBANY, N.Y. — Calling it a “modest although controversial suggestion,” Albany’s Roman Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard recommends a halt to the serving of alcoholic drinks at church fund-raising functions.

In the dioscesan newspaper, the Evangelist, he says that in the face of the “mounting human cost of alcohol and drug abuse in our society,” the church needs to “communicate that people can come together and socialize without tranquilizing themselves.”