Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Baptist Convention, the average ministerial salary (including housing allowance) has risen from $3.903 to $5.795 during the past decade; since 1956 the number of pastors earning $10.000 or more has tripled. Last April the United Lutheran Church in America announced that since 1955 the number of its clergymen earning less than $3.000 had dropped from 182 to 20; the number earning $10,000 or more rose from eleven...
...doubt dominated the initial clerical reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against the New York State Board of Regents' prayer for schools. In their second thoughts most Protestant and Jewish religious figures seem to have decided that the court was right.* Last week 46 Protestant and Jewish clergymen and lay leaders in the Kansas City area issued a statement opposing any form of worship in the public schools as an invasion of "privacy of belief." "The worship of God," said the statement, "is by nature a voluntary expression and ought not to be associated with the coercive functions...
...Testament Christianity is being destroyed," Evangelist Billy James Hargis bellowed into the mike at the Fourth Annual National Convention of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade last week in Tulsa. "God is being attacked from every quarter. Although life under Communism would mean the abolition of worship, certain socialistic, clergymen in the U.S. are propagandizing for unilateral disarmament and ultimately world government including the Communist nations...
...order. Widely read in papal encyclicals, knowledgeable about the Catholic liturgical movement, many modern laymen are openly unhappy in parishes where the spiritual life is conducted along lines that were new a century ago.*Talking about the "emerging layman" is now a favorite parlor game of Catholic intellectuals. Some clergymen-notably Monsignor John Tracy Ellis of Catholic University and Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton-have publicly worried that a new anticlericalism is on the rise among Catholics...
...eloquence of his plea that Crump be spared because he was "a rehabilitated man, a newborn man, a transformed personality." Nizer read from 57 affidavits attesting to Crump's change of character, including one from the warden−the culmination of a massive public drive by columnists, clergymen and penologists to establish the principle that prison can reform a killer, and that when it does he should...