Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment of another acting chairman postpones once again the choice of a permanent clergyman to fill the vacant post at Memorial Church and the newly created University professorship. President Pusey announced in September that a permanent chairman will not be chosen "in the near future,"--at least not until a Dean of the Divinity School has been elected...
...Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman who is a Mason from preaching or ministering to his congregation. At Lambeth Palace it was announced that Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Mason and Archbishop of Canterbury, "does not wish to reply to the article." ¶According to Ecclesia, official publication of Catholic Action in Spain, 353 Spaniards are well...
...partisans.) This is essential for their jobs, since attacking Marxism before Emilia's crowds of tough peasants and laborers, traditionally unfriendly to priests, does not make a clergyman a good insurance risk...
...dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
Died. Bishop Francis John McConnell, 82, controversial Methodist exponent of "the social gospel"; in Lucasville, Ohio. Son of a Methodist clergyman, he studied at Ohio Wesleyan and Boston universities, and as a young pastor, shocked orthodox churchgoers by insisting that aggressive good works were more important than theological niceties. As head of the unofficial but influential Methodist Federation for Social Action (1912-44), the bishop espoused labor's cause, always encouraged his fellow clergymen to do likewise: "You can't be a Methodist without putting things strongly...