Word: chaplain
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Viet Nam is a new kind of war, and new also is the chaplain's method of ministering to it. Since U.S. troops are so widely scattered, chaplains have be come airborne circuit riders. "It's now a matter of riding helicopters and going where the troops are," says Major General Charles E. Brown, a Methodist minister who is the Army's top chaplain. "We used to hold three or four or maybe ten services a week. Now our chaplains are saying services in the combat area to at least ten and sometimes as many...
Constant Fear. By no means does every soldier get to church on Sunday -nor do all of them want to go. "I don't believe for one minute that old saw about there being no atheists in foxholes," says Chaplain (Major) Frank Vavrin. Only about 17% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam regularly attend services on an average Sunday-35,000 men at 1,000 services. Chaplains estimate that more than 60% of the soldiers never go at all. One reason for the low attendance, suggests Air Force Captain Robert Cortez, is that the Viet Nam war is considerably...
...Yale's chaplain, William S. Coffin, will discuss "U.S. Policy in Vietnam: Political and Moral Self-Defeat" beginning at the same time in the Leverett House Old Library...
...been deeply involved in the past quarter century with Harvard, Cambridge, and international affairs. The United Ministry to Harvard and Radcliffe, an ecumenical organization of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish chaplains to the University was started by a Christ Church chaplain who served on Day's staff...
Episcopal Father C. Edward Crowther, who got his rookie training in civil rights by picketing against racial discrimination in fraternities at U.C.L.A. , is now battling in the big league: South Africa. Two years ago in Los Angeles, Crowther, an English-born U.S. citizen, was just a campus chaplain, but a fast rise in the Anglican hierarchy has made him Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and, at 36, the church's youngest bishop. His office in Kimberley has a picture of Martin Luther King on the wall, but Crowther has not until now been belligerent about apartheid...