Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the Baptist convention's decision to recommend to their people that "the Roman Catholic Church is both a religion and an ambitious political system aspiring to be a state" [Nov. 16].
The opinions of President Eisenhower, the Catholic Church, and Senator John F. Kennedy '40 on the controversial issue of birth control drew criticism yesterday from two professors.
Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, described over-population as a "terribly serious problem," one that cannot be solved adequately without some measure of birth control. Representatives of the Catholic Church have argued recently that alternative measures would prove adequate.
In a letter written yesterday to the New York Times, John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, rejected the suggestion made by some Roman Catholic bishops that emigration from overcrowded nations constitutes a feasible alternative to birth control.
One of the Americans had been virtually sure to get a red hat: Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer, 56, appointed last September to succeed Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch as head of the largest Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 members). Shy, scholarly Archbishop Meyer, son of...