Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional and somewhat theatrical custom of clergymen opening or closing a political convention was carried on at Los. Angeles and Chicago, among others by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop Hillinger, and Rabbi Hillel Silver. The familiar scene inevitably raises a question: Should different denominations of Christians pray together-or alongside members of other faiths-and if so, under what circumstances...
...doctors and churchmen were quick to disagree. ¶ William H. Genne, a Congregationalist clergyman and De Blanc's Protestant opposite number as director of the Department of Family Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home and abroad have seen not only the debilitating physical and socio-economic effects of haphazard childbearing, but have also been deeply concerned with the spiritual devastation wrought by fear of bearing children unable to be provided for." ¶ Dr. Alan Guttmacher, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Manhattan...
...capital he championed the cause of Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek when it was highly unpopular-a stand for which the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune still persistently belabor him. He thundered against the perils of the Chinese Communists, recently helped get statements from 7.000 Protestant clergymen backing his stand against U.S. recognition of Red China. He fought for foreign aid ("It offers the way to get the most security for the least cost") and help for Iron Curtain refugees ("Every refugee who comes out is a vote for our society"). When Nikita Khrushchev came...
Suburbia's clergymen tend to be most keenly aware of Suburbia's disappointments and Suburbia's promise. "Many people," complains Kansas City Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, "mistake activity for usefulness." Says Dr. Donald S. Ewing, minister of Wayland's Trinitarian Congregational Church near Boston: ' Suburbia is gossipy. So many of the people are on approximately the same level economically and socially. They're scrambling for success. They tend to be new in the community and they're unstable and insecure. When they see someone else fail, in work or in a family relationship, they...
Although Archbishop Ritter sternly warned that no Catholic student under any circumstances is exempt from the provisions of his pastoral letter, Catholics are bound to this edict only as "a matter of conscience," in deference to the spiritual authority of the archbishopric. Moreover, some Catholic clergymen are not convinced that attendance at one of the 258 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. is an automatic guarantee that a Catholic student's faith will be strengthened...