Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's highest divorce rate, but it also leads in the rate of remarriage after divorce, an occurrence that frequently boosts the statistics by leading to yet another breakup. Americans, in short, appear to be marrying more and enjoying it less. This situation distresses clergymen, sociologists and anthropologists, who rightly regard stable marriage as the foundation of society. But it is only half the tragedy of divorce in America. The real scandal is not that so many Americans resort to divorce. It is that so many of the laws of the land are sadly out of step with...
Having a friend in the White House does not spare Davis from criticism by other clergymen. Martin Luther King's Washington spokesman, Baptist Minister Walter E. Fauntroy, says: "Davis is the most reactionary minister we have." The Disciples' civil rights leader, the Rev. Barton Hunter of Indianapolis, considers Davis "a source of very great embarrassment to the Brotherhood...
...denounced it because "our way of life is threatened" by demonstrations that challenge rule by law. After Unitarian Minister James Reeb was killed in Selma, Davis declared that those who organized the demonstrations there shared in the guilt for his death. Davis was one of the few prominent Washington clergymen who refused to sign a pledge to open membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally integrated: out of 1,025 members of the church, which is in a predominantly Negro neighborhood, four are Negro. His critics charge that Davis has quietly encouraged potential...
...liturgical revival that is restoring sacrament to a place of equality with the preached word. The decrees of the Vatican Council have already removed some Protestant objections to Catholic worship and encourage greater study and use of Scripture by laymen and priests alike. Last week, three English clergymen-an Anglican, a Roman Catholic and a Methodist-jointly recommended still another change in worship that could help bring divided Christianity closer together. They proposed that their churches draw up a common table of Bible lessons, which would be read by all churches on Sundays. With that, they declared, "we should surely...
...Message Credible? For Protestantism, this is an era of unfettered clerics. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike could not astonish anyone now, no matter what he says, and Baptist Minister Martin Luther King has inspired many clergymen to think that their natural habitat is the civil rights demonstration. But there is no comparable liberty within Catholicism. Thus the Berrigan case raises the question, unanswered by the Vatican Council, of the limits of clerical obedience, and the deeper issue once posed by Swiss Theologian Hans Küng: "How is the church's message of freedom to be regarded as credible...