Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message was brutally harsh: "Fifteen dollars per nigger." In these words, a newly formed National Black Economic Development Conference last month demanded that "white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues" pay $500 million in "reparations" to U.S. Negroes or face the possibility of disruption of church operations and seizure of church facilities. Last week conference speaker James Forman, one-time executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income...
...Many church leaders nevertheless recoiled both at the tone of the document (it mentioned "armed struggle" if necessary) and at Forman's aggressive tactics in publicizing it. A few were ready to accept New York Mayor John Lindsay's offer of police protection for houses of worship. Others were obviously moved by the manifesto's charge that Negroes had been "kept in bondage and political servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council...
...memorial service for Robert Veatch '72 has been changed from noon until 4 p.m. today in Memorial Church...
...Pope Paul VI, it was a busy week of ecclesiastical housekeeping. In addition to formally elevating 33 prelates to the rank of cardinal, he named a new international theological commission to study the relationship between heresy and permissible dissent within the church. The Pope also approved a new Roman missal, the book of prayers used by the priest at Mass; the new rubrics flatly forbid any fur ther unauthorized experimentation but approve such tested innovations as the use of jazz and folk music in the liturgy and end the centuries-old requirement that women cover their heads in church...
...Council, he was the chief diplomatic intermediary between the often hostile progressive and conservative camps. Like the Pope, he tends to be conservative theologically, but he is far less rigid than the reactionary Cicognani. Although the son of a wealthy landowner, Villot was known as a champion of "the church of the poor" while Archbishop of Lyon and had frequent and cordial contacts with many dissident groups, including the French worker-priest movement...