Word: clergyman
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Falwell's bellicose entry into the South Africa tangle produced an unholy uproar. A leading U.S. clergyman, President Philip Cousin of the National Council of Churches, said Falwell is "acting like a segregationist." Even the State Department appeared embarrassed. A spokesman termed Tutu a "recognized black leader" and a "voice of moderation in the midst of violence and repression." Last Friday Falwell said on CNN that his use of phony was "unfortunate," and wired an apology to Tutu. He planned further explanation on his own Sunday TV show...
DIED. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, 84, Dutch clergyman, theologian and ecumenicist who was the founding general secretary of the World Council of Churches from its formation in 1948 until 1966; of emphysema; in Geneva. The lifelong crusader for Christian unity saw the W.C.C. go from 135 denominations in 44 countries to 300 in 90 countries. A crusty, rather worldly theologian, Visser 't Hooft insisted that the council include churches in Communist countries, increased the role and influence of African and Asian churches in the organization and pioneered an ecumenical rapprochement with Rome, though his goal of bringing Roman Catholicism...
...other side, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African clergyman who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to apartheid, complained recently in Los Angeles that "people ought to stop using us South African blacks as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do." At a lunch last week with TIME editors, Cuomo said, "There is no question that divestment has caught on." The Governor cited Tutu's current prominence as a major reason for the rising American interest. In Cuomo's view, Tutu is telling Americans that "you're patronizing us, you're wrong. We know...
Dale has the showier role. In recounting, directly to the audience, the downs and irrepressible ups of the couple's years together, he mimics a condescending Viennese specialist, a trendy clergyman, a miraculously cured boy catatonic turned tap dancer. Leaping like a mountain goat from one peak of artifice to another, Dale displays flashes of a fine mind wasted on self-pity and despair. Channing joins him in these sarcastic reveries, but most of the time she has the hard duty of being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels...
...three-member Mission Church panel decided to refer his case to the full Ring (regional circuit) of the church for decision. This week executives of the South African Council of Churches will hold their own emergency meeting on the situation. Any Mission Church decision to suspend or defrock the clergyman would have a wide, wounding ripple effect. Boesak would have to resign his position as the Mission Church's No. 2 officer, as well as the presidency of the World Alliance. One of the most powerful moral voices within South Africa would be gravely compromised...