Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncensored, the letter reached Nairobi, where the East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that the four churchmen had gone on a one-day hunger strike at their villa. But the island governor, he said, had talked things over with Makarios "in a friendly way," and persuaded His Beatitude to eat his next meal...
Laws and policemen, said the report, are right to "punish procuration, the keeping of brothels and offenses against decency," but sexual malpractice itself can in the end "only be defeated by education." A first step in the educational process, according to the churchmen, would be to erase "the double standard of sexual morality which condemns in women what it condones...
...William.H. Baar of the University of Chicago, Episcopal priest-teacher, onetime Lutheran: "The fact that the Anglican Church is right in the middle of the whole Christian tradition is the key to the Anglican way of looking at things . . . With Protestant, Roman and Orthodox Churchmen alike, Anglicans share the full joy and the full sorrow at the picture of the Church as she has made her way through history. But we do not depend upon any age for our inspiration; we do not believe that at any time the essential message of the Church was ever totally obscured...
...Despite their avowed desire to know all kinds of people, ministers tend to associate with leaders of the community. Their effectiveness as churchmen is impaired, more than a third of them reported, by this failure "to maintain fellowship with all groups" and by the difficulty of "loving people...
Daniel-Rops's popularity is not limited to churchmen. On his election to the French Academy last year, he won the votes of traditionally anticlerical members. And when a small group of friends began a fund to buy him the academician's customarily ornate sword, they were swamped by almost 2,000 contributors-including five cardinals, twelve foreign ambassadors, former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, Movie Actress Claude Nollier, Dressmaker Pierre Balmain, the entire staff of the women's magazine, Marie-Claire, and a boy scout troop...