Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parish pressure has forced some ministers to be less open in their advocacy of the Negro cause. In California, virtually every church leader spoke out in 1964 against a referendum to repeal the state's "fair housing" act. The clergymen's advice was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. Today, even though California's Supreme Court has declared the referendum decision unconstitutional, the law is once again being challenged -but far fewer ministers and priests are defending...
Subjective Strength. British Philosopher Herbert Spencer once described a jury as "a group of twelve people of average ignorance." U.S. critics point out that the people best qualified to serve-clergymen, lawyers, doctors, newsmen-are precisely the ones exempted. Some judges complain that juries, either through dumbness or perversity, ignore instructions and promote government by men rather than laws. For 13 years, Authors Kalven and Zeisel have probed such complaints through the Ford Foundation-financed Universi ty of Chicago Jury Project-even to the extent of once bugging a Wichita jury room and scandalizing Congress in the process. Now, after...
...Richard E. Mumma, treasurer and member of the executive committee on the Anti-HUAC Committee, said that although no definite plans had been made yet, "some of our members will probably go to Washington next Monday." The job of alerting a number of lawyers and clergymen who have protested HUAC activities is now in progress, Mumma said. There is every hope that they will respond, he added...
...growing involvement of the churches in the secular world is the basic cause of this shift of theological sights to what is alternatively called the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete and the Comforter. Thoughtful churchmen, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to clergymen involved in the current struggle for racial justice, profess to be aware of an outpouring of God's redeeming spirit outside the confines of the institutionalized churches. In this view, many groups and individuals not associated with the churches, some of them even openly atheistic, are nevertheless struggling for the coming of the kingdom of God on earth. Dutch Protestant...
...called "extraordinary ministers" under emergency conditions. Penance, for example, was occasionally administered by laymen well into the Middle Ages, while up to 314 A.D. deacons rather than priests sometimes celebrated the Eucharist. Even today laymen can validly baptize when no priest is around. Thus, concludes Van Beeck, Protestant clergymen may well be, from a Catholic viewpoint, "extraordinary ministers" of the sacraments for their own churches, whose good faith, sound doctrine, and correct spiritual intentions fulfill the essential conditions for validity...