Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been wondering if the Rev. Dr. Guy Shipler intends to honor Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam for his militant efforts to prevent Roman Catholic children from using public school buses? . . . The men who set out to destroy Roman Catholicism, in effect, destroy Christianity as well, because when the united Church of Rome falls there will be no hope for any other Christian church, especially Protestantism ... In this I speak as a Protestant and not as a Roman Catholic...
...women, black & white, asked for more police, better street lighting, more housing. They shrieked derisively at bumbling council attempts to shift responsibility. But not all were ready to saddle the politicians with all the blame. Said the Rev. L. K. Jackson, Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure has got to come from within...
...were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...
...Potato. On the final day, there was a minor to-do over a proposed report on religious liberties. Protesting against "the insidious pattern by which Communist and other totalitarian regimes are seeking to force the church into a position of subservience," the report also contained a surprise package. This was a call "for Protestants and Roman Catholics at the highest level of leadership" to join forces against the anti-church methods used by Communists...
...Joseph M. Dawson of Washington, D.C., public relations executive for 14 million U.S. Baptists. In a crackling voice he read an amendment: "The practices of freedom in non-Communist countries are imperiled by pressures exerted ... by the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . The ecclesiastical organization and policies of the Roman Catholic Church do not accord with the preservation and extension of religious freedom...