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This runaway conversation is reported in a book published this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
...careful religious education, says Mrs. Chaplin, should help a child to express church doctrine in his own words. She quotes Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's account of a 14-year-old boy's answer to the question: "Why did Jesus have to die?" Replied the youngster...
...Both the Orthodox Church and the Moslems also guard Christian Holy Places in Palestine...
...hotel operators and storekeepers of Italy listened to the Pope with a special joy last week. In his semi-annual radio address to the world's Catholics, Pius XII announced officially that 1950 would be a Holy Year-the 25th in the church's history**-during which Catholics who visit Rome to "venerate the tombs of the Apostles and the See of Peter" earn special indulgences for their sins...
Critic. In Berwick, Pa., an exasperated six-year-old boy explained to police why he had tried to burn down the Berwick Christian Church: the services were too long...