Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic Church has long made it an earthly policy to tolerate any form of government under which it is free to pursue its mission. Toleration does not, of course, constitute endorsement or support. Last October, however, Pope Pius XI, taking into account the recent course of world events came near to praising democracy. In a message to the U. S. hierarchy for the golden jubilee of the Catholic University in Washington he wrote...
Four years ago Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, a mild-mannered Southern Methodist who had held pastorates in the West and Southwest, became secretary of Home Missions, Hospitals and General Work for his church's Board of Missions. Unsure what his general work was supposed to be, Dr. Emmons finally decided to publish a devotional periodical. He planned one. and found a name for it when he heard a Richmond minister mention "the Upper Room"* in a sermon...
Last week in Vatican City the 81-year-old Pope suffered three heart attacks, was given Extreme Unction, then rallied and was announced ready to resume his "normal" life. He was not to die, however, before the U. S. hierarchy, acting upon his charge, aligned the Catholic Church as a supporter of U. S. democracy...
...True religion is anqualified worship of the unqualifiedly good; faise religion is either worship of an instrumentality of life, or worship of self," Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of Applied Christianity, and the Union Theological Sexinary, New York City, told a congregation that packed Memorial Church yesterday morning...
...second fallacy represents a short-sighted view of man's genuine make-up, for whether or not we are immediately affected, "We do care." What we consider the noblest of mankind, even outside of Sunday church, have always devoted themselves to that which went beyond their immediate interests, whether it be the unknown in knowledge or the betterment of mankind for its own sake.... Man is a social animal, and thus a moral animal. What has happened in Germany shocked us because it attacks our faith in this nobler nature of man. It attacks not merely our Christian heritage...