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...ecumenical movement." He got a quick answer from jovial, chubby Alliance President F. (for Fred) Townley Lord, a London pastor. Said Lord: "We decline to equate brotherly cooperation with sacrifice of essential principles . . . We do not share the views of those who talk about organizational division of Christendom...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror immediately nominated the Dean for "the most unending ass, half in Christendom and half in Communism." The London Daily Sketch's editorial columnist, Candidus, angrily scored his "antics and political clowning," suggested a boycott of the cathedral whenever he preached. From the pulpit of London's St. Luke's Church, the Rev. Hector Morgan issued another blast: "Send Dr. Johnson on a permanent mercy mission to the prisoners in the salt mines of Siberia...
...story typifies but does not tell the whole story of monastic life in mid-20th century. From the time (circa 530) that a young Italian nobleman, Benedict of Nursia, smashed the statue of Apollo on Monte Cassino and founded his famed abbey, the monastery has been the heart of Christendom. Even after the Middle Ages monasteries continued to dominate religious life, provided much of the fire of reform within the Catholic Church. But with the 18th century the monastery was relegated to a dark corner. More devastating than the French Revolution's "freeing" of nuns and monks from their...
...denominational missions has, in my opinion, come to an end," said Dr. David Gnanapragasam Moses, principal of Hislop College at Nagpur, India, and Henry W. Luce visiting professor of world Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary. By showing Asians the bitter divisions within Western Christendom, denominational missions "sterilized the possibility of the genuine Christian community arising [and] sowed the seeds of division . . . All the travail that we now have to unite the churches is [the] result...
...year to study canon and civil law, rhetoric and composition. Organized into 35 separate "Nations," foreign and Italian students hired their own professors, elected their rectors and reigned supreme on all nonacademic matters. Later, branching out in the arts and sciences, Bologna over the centuries mothered some of Christendom's greatest intellectuals, e.g., Dante, Petrarch, Copernicus, built up what is probably Western Europe's finest library (500,000 volumes) of history and economics...