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...half decided that the United States military had housecleaning to do in Cambodia; three days previous to that, Religious Heritage of America had named President Nixon Churchman of the Year for "carrying his deep religious commitment into the Presidency;" and Pentecost Action had called this meeting to conduct an excommunication of President Nixon from Christianity. A young Catholic priest and Harvard doctoral candidated, G. Ronald Murphy, presided with assistance from clergy of several other faiths. After a welcome and prayer, scriptural passages were read, the most material being 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, wherein sanction is given for judging those...
...seeks only the lowest common denomination. By the best White House count, the President himself has actually been to church outside the White House only four times since he took office, but that did not deter the 1970 conference of the Religious Heritage of America from naming him Churchman of the Year. Quaker Nixon got the award in spite of some discreet grumbling inside the nonsectarian organization. Some thought that the East Room services raise uncomfortable questions about the separation of church and state. Others felt that the chosen Churchman of the Year should, after...
...ought to have the answers, somehow solve all the urgent and increasingly complex moral, technological and political issues that face society. Some say that the task is impossible and simply dismiss it; others have decided, like Hollander, that the only answer is broadly based training that equips a churchman to comprehend the clamorous needs of today's world. Like their counterparts in secular universities, seminarians do not always recommend the wisest changes for the long run; they often want to discard required courses like Hebrew and Greek without realizing that the conservative seminaries, which are preserving the languages, would thus...
...iron churchman died in 1642, at the age of 57. He reminded Louis XIII, who visited his deathbed, that he was leaving France "in the highest degree of glory and of reputation which it has ever had, and all your enemies beaten and humiliated." Then he asked the King to appoint the Italian papal diplomat Mazarin his successor as First Minister. Louis, O'Connell believes, probably never liked Richelieu. Almost no one did. But the King fed the dying Cardinal two egg yolks with his own hand. A few hours after the Cardinal's death, Louis told Mazarin...
...project, a new theory, a new friendship-that he often seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His role was to sting minds, being provocative rather than profound. His life was one of dazzling transitions that sometimes made him seem unstable-from attorney to churchman, from Catholic to Protestant, from bishop to dropout. Recently he had turned spiritualist. His last transition-his disappearance and almost certain death in the Judean desert-was the strangest...