Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article on Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein and Catholic-Protestant relations [TIME, May 5] is the best I have yet read. I cut the article out and am showing it to both Catholics and Protestants I know - but mostly Catholics...
Along with Sapers Thomas H. Pets-check '53 was elected co-chairman, while Kirby van Kessler '54 took over as secretary and Samuel A. Cousins '54 stepped in as treasurer. Robert C. Terry, Jr. '54 will be resident director, and Frederick L. Bernstein '55 will serve as Yard chairman for the Drive...
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein (author of What the Jews Believe) was once an enthusiastic member of the Interfaith Good Will Committee in his. home town of Rochester, N.Y. For almost 20 years the clergymen on the committee dealt "constructively" with relations among their different religious groups. Since 1949, how ever, committee members have not even sat down together at an annual luncheon, The reason: hard feelings between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics...
...Rochester situation is fairly typical," Rabbi Bernstein told fellow towns men last week. "My own duties as presi dent of the Central Conference of American Rabbis have taken me to scores of communities. I cannot recall one where improved relations were reported. In practically all of them, tensions were on the rise." Some of the reasons, as Bernstein sees them: the intensified Catholic pro gram for parochial schools, Cardinal Spellman's controversy with Mrs. Roosevelt in which he denounced her for bigotry, Harry Truman's designation of General Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The Clark appointment, says...
...basic Catholic premises for Catholics (not for themselves). They must learn to live with them. At times this may require firmness, but not intolerance . . . The genius of Protestantism is the open mind." Jewish-Christian relations have not suffered the same deterioration as those be tween Catholics and Protestants, said Bernstein. But "underlying tensions" do manifest themselves. His advice to Jews: "Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not take any satisfaction from the current Catholic-Protestant frictions ... A poisoned atmosphere of divisiveness and distrust will engulf...