Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastest-growing portion of the entire Anglican communion throughout the world." In Manhattan- popularly supposed to be ungodly although its churchgoers, mostly devout Roman Catholics, devout Jews, are many-the Protestant Episcopal Church has lost 8,584 members since 1910. But in Westchester, reported a committee of Episcopal churchmen and laymen last week, Episcopal churchgoers have increased by 12,223 in the same period, or nearly...
Name. The Missionary District of the Philippines has urged the General Convention that the word "Protestant" be deleted from the Church's name, a proposal perennially made by high churchmen as a means toward unity with Catholic sects...
...Orthodox churchmen, custodians of what they believe is the only sure cure for the soul-sickness of many a confused modern, view with jealous alarm the spiritual patent medicines of healers, swamis, yogis, fortunetellers, popular "psychologists." But in Manhattan last week appeared a lecturer on popular psychology who was notable because he, Dr. Albert Garcia de Quevedo, is a good Catholic, working under Catholic auspices and billed as the only U. S. Catholic layman lecturing on "practical psychology...
...Catholic hierarchy of Spain detailed the reasons why they hope the Rightists will win the Civil War (TIME, Sept. 13). To Spain's Bishops this week was addressed an open letter which few of them would very likely ever see. It was signed by 150 U. S. Protestant churchmen and pedagogs, men of the calibre of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Dewey, Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman, Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco, President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Agitated as U. S. churchmen often are with the moral aspects...
Last week New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who faces a convention fight if his rigid ideas on marriage and divorce are to prevail over those of churchmen who would liberalize Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education...