Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contended that the current concern over the question "Is God Dead?" is the result of conflict among clergymen as to the role of religion in modern life...
Washington expects Pope Paul to plead for a Christmas truce, as he did a year ago. A group of prominent American clergymen has asked for a cessation of bombing. Harvard Professor Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and now head of a State Department advisory group on Asian affairs, wrote that a gradual suspension of bombing "probably would be the wise course." U Thant has repeatedly urged the U.S. to call off the raids, and the Administration is aware that most free-world governments also favor a pause...
Four times since Pike was ordained a priest in 1946, groups of Episcopal clergymen have denounced him as a heretic and demanded that he be brought to trial...
...committee of 13 clergymen, doctors and educators was headed by Methodist Pastor Kenneth G. Greet, father of three children and author of two books on sex relationships. It rejected the council's original instructions which were to prepare "a statement of the Christian case for abstinence from sexual intercourse before marriage and faithfulness within marriage." The morality of human sexuality, asserted the committee firmly, admits of no precise and easy answers. A principal aim of the study group, said Greet, was precisely to correct the distorted concept that the church is made up of "sexless saints sitting in judgment...
...importance of preserving an excellent community action project far outweighs minor organizational faults or the convenience of pleasing political allies. The Administration should take the advice of a large number of clergymen and civil rights lawyers who have formed an ad hoc pressure group to support CDGM and restore the project the funds it deserves...