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...Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life," which will lay less emphasis than usual on conversion of "the heathen," instead pay more attention to what one churchman called the heathen at home-the unchurched and indifferent masses living in nominally Christian countries...
...impact of the archbishop's pronouncement was all the greater because he is a reserved, scholarly churchman who has always kept above the country's political controversies. For the government and its Communist friends, who have tried to give the impression that relations between church and state were close and friendly, it was a body blow. Indicating that his anti-Red crusade was only starting, the archbishop last week directed the clergy not only to read his message to their congregations, but to carry on the work actively by explaining the dangers of Communism to the people...
...Rector. Presiding over this complicated parish, part church, part museum, part big business, sits red-haired Rector John Heuss, 45. High Churchman Heuss (rhymes with deuce) is well matched with traditionally high-church Trinity, where all 22 clerics on the staff are addressed as Father. His manner is dignified, yet easy; his administrative ability, his clean desk and smooth 15-minute-appointment schedule would do justice to the highest tycoon among his vestrymen. And he is also a sociologist in a parish that needs...
...Recently a German Protestant churchman, so the story goes, gave the Pope a cardinal bird. But the old. established birds would have none of the newcomer, and the Protestant cardinal had to leave the papal household...
...difficult to see how ethical and even Christian sanction can be claimed for such a policy. I must respect the sincerity of Mr. Dulles, a fellow churchman; but I earnestly beg him to beware of what Britain's leading Methodist, Dr. Donald Soper, has just called "forging God's signature to our plans...