Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Suicide. It was a day of wrenching contrasts. Quiet seminars mulled over the issues of the war while pickets shouted their dissent. Some mass marches developed a football rally spirit; elsewhere a funereal atmosphere dominated as church bells tolled and the names of the war dead were read. A pair of high school sweethearts from Blackwood, N.J., attended an M-day rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with...
Somehow, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen had never seemed an appropriate choice to head the diocese of Rochester, N.Y., with its 362,000 souls. Indeed, it was no secret in the church that the man once believed in line to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was restless and unhappy in his out-of-the-way post. As one friend expressed it: "After being on the heights of Mount Tabor all his life, the bishop found his Calvary in Rochester." Even so, his resignation last week at age 74, after less than three years in his first important pastoral post, came...
...hold church services, vigils, and encourage ringing of bells through the day Friday...
...great church rarely had empty seats when Fosdick took the pulpit. His messages reached others across the nation by way of 32 books and a long-lived Sunday radio series. Fosdick's eloquent "life-situation preaching," which incisively related modern theology to everyday situations, was hardly spontaneous. He shut himself off from callers each day to compose his highly literate discourses replete even with articulate jokes that friends called "Fosdickettes." As he observed: "A last-minute sermon preparer is not doing a good job or giving the congregation what it deserves...
Fosdick was a longtime pacificist and once thundered to League of Nations delegates in Geneva that "the church has come down through history too often trying to carry the cross of Jesus in one hand and a dripping sword in the other." He energetically supported a host of social causes, and well after his retirement he continued to work against the war in Viet Nam and in behalf of the black population that lived in poverty not far from Riverside's neo-Gothic splendor. "Always take a job that's too big for you," he once proposed...