Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist drive against the Roman Catholic Church, which is essentially an effort to split it up into national segments, follows a plan conceived by Adolf Hitler. The diary of Nazi Racist Alfred Rosenberg, published last week by U.S. Military Government in Germany, tells how in 1940 Hitler planned to set up a German Catholic Church with its own pope. He also intended to have a pope for each German satellite country. Rosenberg quotes Hitler as saying: "The more popes, the better...
...Richard Graham Crookshank, rector of the village church of Bere Ferrers in Devonshire, England, likes to appraise his congregation as follows: "We are a lovely agricultural parish set between two rivers. I don't like to sound conceited, but my parishioners are a bit above average. We are really great friends...
...Formerly a parish was a community with interests common to all," he wrote. "Attendance at church Sunday by Sunday was maybe, to a certain extent, conventional, but at least it brought those who came to worship into a 'real' fellowship. Nowadays, it is the screaming fellowship of the motor-coach trip, the beer-blown friendship of the jug and bottle, the oily fellowship of the fish-&-chip saloon, the sandy-pebbly fellowship of the trippers on the beaches on Sundays, the near-naked-truth fellowship of those who go down to the sea in slips...
Lutherans took issue with the cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there...
Careful Reading. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion were really anti-Catholic," Dr. Behnken reasoned, "it would be anti-Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protecting the best interests of their church, their schools and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her discussion of federal aid to schools convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or to any individual church...