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...rather high proportion of clergymen," says the report, "have never had any special training for their jobs. . . . According to a study in 1926 of the education of 105,000 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church, 17 white Protestant denominations and in three Negro bodies, the typical Roman Catholic clergyman has had a better educational preparation for his responsibilities than the Protestant minister." Since 1926, the training of rural ministers has shown "marked improvement...
Chief postwar problem of the diocese, says Bishop Batty mildly, is the tendency of chaplains to become unpopular in countries favoring Communism. But he emphasized that the duties of the English clergyman abroad are confined to the spiritual welfare of Britons, do not entail spreading the gospel. Batty's more poignant memories of Russia include the Russian clergy's "unfortunate custom of kissing each other when meeting. . . . This is all very well for the Russian clergymen, all of whom are well-equipped with long and spiky beards, but it can be most uncomfortable for a clean-shaven English...
...story: a well-loved clergyman (Wyrley Birch) is shot through the head on a village street. There are no known motives, no clues, and it looks like an impossible case to crack. But someone must be tried and convicted, quick. Elections are near, and through their newspapers the political outs belabor the reform administration. Among innumerable stumblebums, the police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana...
...business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...
Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...