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Good luck to Cardinal Gushing and his ideas [Aug. 21]. I hope that other Catholic clergymen will join with him in modernizing the church. It's about time Catholic parishioners realized that it's not true that only Protestants go to hell...
...church, and the trees are my cathedral.' I get a lot of the same feeling from going up the canyons or walking in the desert." Goldwater regards retired Bishops William Scarlett and Walter Mitchell, both of whom once ministered in Phoenix, as having influenced his life. Both clergymen are in disagreement with his stand on civil rights, the anti-poverty program and foreign policy, and Bishop Scarlett adds that he cannot "support Goldwater's presidential aspirations." Said Goldwater last week: "They're both very liberal and can't understand how I could be conservative." Once, years...
Many Anglican clergymen, High and Low, felt that the vestments issue had been blown up beyond proportion. Canterbury himself said: "In some churches, I wear no more than a black scarf"-leading Punch to take gleeful note that the archbishop had also called for understanding and forbearance for wearers of topless bathing suits. The Rev. Nicolas Stacey, rector of Woolwich, strongly deplored the concern with trivialities. "Our work is hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes...
...quandary at the Methodist General Conference in Pittsburgh last May was when and how to integrate the all-Negro Central Jurisdiction. Being separate-but-equal, the Central Jurisdiction gave position and status to Negro clergymen, some of whom feared loss of jobs and rank if it were abolished. The conference settled for giving white jurisdictions a leisurely four years to plan for the incorporation of Negro churches...
...faster than anyone foresaw, the dilemma is being solved- by giving the Negro clergymen more authority over white believers than men of their race have in any other Protestant church. By last week it was clear that outside the Deep South the Central Jurisdiction will be absorbed long before...