Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Pacific), was just as staunchly Roman Catholic. For her pretty daughter Claire, obviously nothing would do but a Catholic wedding. Ivan and Claire themselves, pious though they might be, were breathless with the thousand and one urgencies of a society betrothal. The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue...
...realized by me. I was willing to participate in a wedding ceremony in accordance with my wife's faith and she felt the same about mine." Excommunicated Claire made no comment at all. The archdiocese hinted that she could be reinstated in the Roman Catholic Church if she made a confession of error and did proper penance...
Baltimore's big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ...
Said Methodist Pastor Albert E. Day in announcing the appointment of the Rev. Walter Fiscus of Eugene, Ore. as his co-pastor: "In these days when there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation...
Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...