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Similar objections were voiced by the lay-edited Catholic monthly Ramparts, the Episcopal journals the Witness and the Churchman, and the biweekly United Church Herald - although Dr. Ben Herbster, president of the United Church of Christ, later maintained that the magazine was not speaking for the denomination. Many other church journals seem to have lined up against Goldwater by implication. The Methodist student magazine Motive reprinted the entire Christianity and Crisis special issue dissecting Goldwater, while the Covenant Companion of the Evangelical Covenant Church published a story on the Century's stand; neither journal added comment or rebuttal...
...five to 90 skis, swims and hikes. And many of them have summer cottages on the shores of the endless fjords; often businessmen commute to work by hydrofoil. Though 96% of the population is nominally Lutheran, the church plays little part in the nation's life. Says one churchman: "We are suffused with a pale benevolence instead of the antagonism we used to know...
...Juscelino!" cried a group in front of his Rio apartment. Kubitschek came to the window, beaming. "Thief! Thief!" they cried.) In Recife, troops searching for the sister of an imprisoned leftist governor went so far as to invade the palace of Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, Brazil's leading churchman. The angry archbishop telephoned the regional army commander, and a colonel came racing to order the troops away. That same day, Dom Helder and 16 of his bishops joined in issuing a statement urging that "the innocent who were accidentally arrested in the first moments of inevitable confusion be returned...
...castaways' island and briskly demonstrated that men are innately depraved and all social systems therefore doomed. Now, in The Spire, he symbolically sums up the works of civilization as a stone spire and all human consciousness as the exaltation, confusion and final despair of one lightheaded old churchman struggling to have the spire added to the body of a Gothic cathedral...
Died. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, 84, crusading churchman, longtime (1907-49) pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Unitarian-Universalist Community Church, who campaigned against capital punishment and corruption (he played a key role in dethroning New York's Mayor James J. Walker in 1932), worked for causes ranging from birth control to nuclear disarmament, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...