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...South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...
...senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world's sins as well as our own, there is plenty of confusion still. But we move forward...
...Christendom's greatest monuments-St. Peter's in Rome-is never quite completed. Among the best present-day artists working to finish it is a self-taught, 45-year-old sculptor from Milan named Giacomo Manzù. Four years ago, Manzù won a competition to do bronze bas-reliefs for the "Doorway of Death" (opened only for funerals) at one side of the Basilica. Now his scale study is at last complete (see cut), and he hopes that by devoting all his working time to the project he will have the doors themselves done in two more...
...those American Roman Catholics who have looked toward Evanston as an opportunity to increase understanding and good will between the various branches of Christendom, Cardinal Stritch's letter will have almost as shattering an effect as Leo XIII's letter on the blight of 'Americanism' had on liberal tendencies in American Roman Catholic circles in the 1890s . . . Dramatic emphasis will be given to the fact that there is a great gulf fixed between the papal church and all other churches. And the world will be told that this gulf yawns wide and deep because...
...Christendom is sown with the bones of saints-chips and splinters, shins and fingers, skulls and full skeletons-encased in rich reliquaries and venerated by the faithful. The delicate question of authenticity often rests only on pious tradition; one bone looks much like another, and who can say for sure...