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Orthodox canon law forbids clergymen to kill, and Makarios has never been seen with a gun. But he provided leadership and funds for arms to the island's rebels, and during the 1955-59 rebellion Britain exiled him for a year on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. Then, admitting defeat, the British invited Makarios to the London settlement talks, and he returned to Cyprus to be elected the first President...
Barry Goldwater was not the only one talking about decay in the nation's morality. Last week a group of highly respected clergymen, dismayed by Supreme Court decisions in obscenity cases, exploded in furious criticism of the nation's highest court...
What upset the clergymen was the fact that the court recently overturned three state court bans against the sale of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and an Ohio ruling that forbade the showing of a French movie called The Lovers. In all, nine clergymen signed the public statement: Presiding Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of the Methodist Church New York Conference; the Rev. Wilburn C. West, Eastern States Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the Rev. W. Scott Morton, Director of New York's Presbyterian University Christian Foundation; Catholic Bishops...
Bingo King Co., Inc., of Denver, reportedly the biggest maker of bingo equipment, says that business is better than ever before. Many clergymen find bingo playing the most embarrassing of fund-raising devices, and are openly grateful if it is outlawed by state or city ordinances. But 13 states have specifically legalized it; in New Jersey, churches and synagogues grossed $18.5 million last year, and in New York the take is even bigger...
...Washington Diocese, about 80% of the fund raising for major projects is done by pros, says Auxiliary Bishop John Spence. Recognizing the growing role of professionalism, the Methodists' American University in Washington awards M.A.s and Ph.D.s in church business management. But some Protestant clergymen now tend to think that professional fund raising is counterproductive. Says the Rev. Theodore Palmquist: "Our people don't like to give when they know that 10% of their money will go to professionals...