Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on Roman Catholic priests and their adverse reactions to celibacy [Sept. 15] indicates what little value some of those clergymen place in their vows. Their oaths of poverty, obedience and celibacy symbolize the patterning of their lives to that of Jesus Christ. Reverend John A. O'Brien and his "countless thousands" should realize that by questioning their celibate state they are contradicting the way of life they chose to follow...
...Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East Germany is also trying to transform Luther into a precursor of Communism...
Presiding Bishop John E. Hines pronounced the convention one of the most constructive in years. The delegates approved a report of a commission headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey, calling for a reform in the training of Episcopal clergymen. Also adopted was the Presiding Bishop's $3,000,000-a-year program to aid urban Negroes-which Hines called a major step toward meeting the crises of the cities...
...Their aim is to make business executives, doctors, lawyers, Peace Corpsmen and assorted self-searching women more aware of themselves and of their "authentic" relations with others through sensual and physical rather than verbal experience. Such sensitivity training is suddenly in vogue across the nation to help community leaders, clergymen and businessmen in their dealings with people. Some 350 officials of the State Department, including ambassadors, have taken sensitivity classes at Washington's NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. About 150 trainees at the federal Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah, hope to improve their "interpersonal relations" with...
...other reason than the continuing exodus from the ministry of priests who intend to wed. The N.A.P.R. claims that about 400 U.S. priests have done so in the past 18 months.* Several speakers proposed structural reforms by which the church might regain the services of married clergymen. One suggestion: the creation of a special jurisdiction for married priests, within which they could continue their clerical functions. At the final session, the attending clerics overwhelmingly approved a resolution addressed to American bishops, urging that married priests be restored as communicants and permitted to exercise "the active ministry of the church...