Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last month he was sentenced to death for the murder of three policemen and one civilian killed in the gunfight. In recent weeks, there have been shooting incidents involving police and snipers in Cairo, Ill., Portland, Ore., and Sacramento, Calif. Police were attacked by black snipers outside a Detroit church this spring and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In Chicago, two white policemen were fired on after another cop shot a black youth. White toughs who fancy themselves vigilantes add to the unrest by threatening Negroes...
...Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council, acknowledged the historic import of the meeting in his welcome, telling the Pope that his visit "proclaims to the whole world that the ecumenical movement flows on ever wider, ever deeper toward the unity and renewal of Christ's church." For his own part, Pope Paul seemed to indicate that such unity might have to wait a while. He startled some World Council members by explicitly calling attention to his papal office-the one issue likely to keep the Catholic
...Church out of the organization for some years to come. "Our name is Peter," said the Pope. "Scripture tells us which meaning Christ has willed to attribute to this name, what duties He lays upon us, the responsibilities of the apostle and his successors...
...Massachusetts, an anonymous worshiper at St. Barbara's Church in Woburn began placing fresh flowers at the statue of the church's demoted patron saint. A woman in a crowded Naples streetcar invoked the name of St. Januarius - the city's patron - when the car suddenly stopped and slammed passengers together. A few seconds later, she changed her tone in disgust. "The devil with San Gennaro! He's no good any more. My poor saint...
...Cavalrymen laying their wreath at St. George's statue, Scouts marching past the sovereign on St. George's Day will think no less of their patron, but they will think less kindly of Rome." In Washington, D.C., the Russian Orthodox community expressed its feelings by packing the church for a May feast day honoring St. Nicholas. Some Orthodox churchmen complained that Rome insulted their faith by unilaterally downgrading saints who were especially revered by Eastern Christianity...