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gracefully arranged things by extending an invitation through Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican's ecumenical Secretariat for Christian Unity. To mollify the fundamentalists, Dr. Craig insisted that he was going to Rome mainly for centenary celebrations at Rome's Scots Kirk of St. Andrews-a churchman's Roman holiday that, incidentally, would include a visit to the Pope. In a final effort to block the visit, Britain's National Union of Protestants dispatched...
...hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "we are seeing right here one of the very early events in the second great Reformation of Christendom...
...from Hitler's Germany was one of his prime concerns. Karl Barth once told him of an imprisoned pastor Barth was especially worried about, and Wim remembered a beer-drinking session he had had in 1933 with a blackshirted Nazi who turned out to be Heinrich Himmler. So Churchman Visser 't Hooft wrote Nazi Himmler. recalling the incident, and succeeded in having the pastor released...
Elected to preside over the House of Deputies was Layman Clifford Phelps Morehouse, 57, of Katonah, N.Y., the vice president and secretary of Manhattan's Morehouse-Barlow Co., an Episcopal publishing house. High Churchman Morehouse was one of those who favored dropping "Protestant" from his church's name (TIME, Sept. 22), but the House of Bishops voted 70 to 54 against the change. He is only the second layman to head the 670-man House of Deputies since the church was established in 1785. The other: the late Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, who served from...
...choosing Scharf to succeed crusty Bishop Otto Dibelius last February as head of the Evangelical Church, the synod bore in mind his reputation for dealing with the Reds in a way that won their grudging respect. Said one top Communist official: "Give me Scharf rather than any other churchman. At least I understand what he wants." And in office Kurt Scharf has been uniquely free to attend church meetings across the border-even on occasion to go abroad, as he did for the enthronement of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury...