Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime talking point of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Group has been that it works equally well in the framework of any Christian church-not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic...
...Beatitude Miron Cristea, snowy-bearded Patriarch of Rumania's 13,000,000 Orthodox Christians and present Premier of the Government of its 19,000,000 people, last August delivered himself of an interpretation of Christian doctrine. In an attack upon Rumanian Jews, front-paged in his nation's press, he declared: "The duty of a Christian is to love himself first and to see that his needs are satisfied. Only then can he help his neighbor. . . . Why should we not get rid of these parasites [Jews] who suck Rumanian Christian blood? It is logical and holy to react...
...which belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...
Albania, an independent nation since 1913, was long a part of Turkey, is still 69% Mohammedan. It has, however, 100,000 Roman Catholics, 200,000 adherents of the Albanian Orthodox Church. Moreover, there are 25,000 Albanian-born Christians in the U. S. Most of the 10,000 living in New England belong to the Christian Albanian Church. The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard...
Other members of the Economics' Visiting Committee, beside Lippmann and Whitney, are Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Albert F. Bigelow '03, Roger S. Baldwin, Barklie Henry, Christian A. Herter '15, Alvin S. Johnson, Joseph P. Kennedy '12, George O. May, Charles M. Storey '12, John G. Winant, and Orrin G. Wood...