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...unity can be achieved only if it "takes root in the local communi ties," says Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, the new president of the National Council of Churches. The roots are already sprouting. Ecumenism - until recently the private dream of theologians and the occasional public practice of rank ing clergymen - has become a spirit-changing factor in the church life of every U.S. community. Every day more laymen join in a dialogue once reserved for ministers, and as one Washington, D.C., pastor puts it, "some of the best discussions take place in car pools and Laundromats." The example of Pope...
...stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their churches for use as freedom schools...
Prosecution of Fanny Hill was recommended to Brooke by the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, which has the authority to report violations of he Commonwealth's obscenity laws. The commission is made up of three clergymen, a high school principal, a police chief, and a newspaper publisher. Joseph Zabriskie, chairman of the Commission, explained yesterday that action had been taken against Fanny Hill when a woman whose 15-year-old son had bought a copy brought it to their attention...
Among the many clergymen who quoted the story in sermons is Dr. David Read, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, who cited what he called that "very full and factual report of the revolution in sexual morality in this country" to underline his own thoughts. Said Dr. Read...
...TIME bureaus in the U.S., as well as many part-time correspondents and the Paris and London staffs, were called on to contribute to the story. They interviewed hundreds of people-sociologists, psychologists, historians, educators, clergymen, judges, law-enforcement officers, physicians, grandparents, parents and teenagers. They found almost everyone -from the most knowing experts to sometimes bewildered parents-interested in discussing the subject and conscious, in one way or another, of the trend. The correspondents' reports, plus a wealth of existing research, provided an imposing collection of material for the story. The researcher in charge is a mother...