Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision, once-to renounce the prerogative of making major decisions." Monks and nuns, he points out, do not even have to decide where to live or with whom. Both inside and outside the cloister, however, the choice of religion as a strategy is becoming less effective; more and more clergymen are daring to reach their own moral conclusions and voice them in public...
...Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Though for two decades he conducted his crusades as a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Roberts was accepted as a United Methodist minister in 1968. This week he will be one of the guest speakers at a Catskill Mountain retreat for Methodist clergymen from New York...
Pope Paul VI has drastically overhauled Vatican money management by putting it all under one roof for the first time. He has also gradually switched its control from laymen to clergymen. In the 1930s, the Vatican's lay wizards made major gains through speculation in foreign currencies, which is against canon law. Today's Pope wants future church investments to be not only legal but moral, whether or not they are profitable. He has even considered forming a Third World investment syndicate, regardless of the financial return. Meanwhile, for other reasons, Paul is damping a movement that would...
...taking human life and thus a crime against both God and man. The church threatens with excommunication anyone who obtains or performs the operation. Fundamentalist Protestants and some Orthodox Jews also oppose abortion. Though some rabbis and Protestant ministers have been leaders in the abortion reform movement, other liberal clergymen believe that abortion is justified only in those rare instances when it is necessary to save the mother's life...
...with the liberal program. Some who might have left are now moving in the Good News direction; about 1,800 of them gathered at a meeting in Cincinnati earlier this month. The magazine itself now commands a readership of 5,000 among the nation's 35,000 Methodist clergymen...