Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist, I am shocked by the committee known as the P.O.A.U. [Jan. 19]. Patron saints of the armed forces are (and were) members of the early Christian church -not solely Catholic saints but saints of all Christians, Protestants as well as Roman Catholics...
While we are having our troubles with the Commies, the Pope's army is sneaking through the backdoor under the garb of their church's christening our Army units for their own saints...
...Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing. ¶ Extend the life of the late-starting, hard-working Civil Rights Commission, created by the Administration's 1957 bill, for another two years...
...seem to encourage use of the Mass as a party record. But the piece has already been performed at a Providence cathedral, and there are rumor that it will be imported to Boston. One hopes that some time will elapse before the University Choir will be replaced at Memorial Church...
Said President Marc Boegner of the Federation of Protestant Churches of France: "There are barriers humanly insurmountable . . . But it is no less true that a radically new climate has developed in the course of the last decades in the relations of the great Christian confessions among themselves." In the U.S., President Edwin T. Dahlberg of the National Council of Churches said: "Anything that would bring together all the churches of Christ would be blessed of God." But, he added, "it would have to be recognized that it was a mutual coming together, not under conditions laid down by one church...