Word: clergymen
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...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...
...more modest version involving no public money. Under such plans, children get time off from public school to attend religious classes. Although many "Sunday" schools are boring and poorly attended, they need not be. Since Bennington. Vt., closed its Catholic high school in 1967, an ecumenical group of clergymen has used a special center to offer high school level, religiously oriented courses on such topics as "How Do I Know...
There are better omens in the actions of clergymen like Houston's John Bisagno, even when they are uncertain of the full meaning and the life span of the Jesus revolution. Says Bisagno: "All I know is that kids are turning on to Jesus. My concern is that the staid, traditional churches will reject these kids and miss the most genuine revival of our lifetime." Canon Edward N. West of Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine has also made his church...
This fear affects others besides friends, Stephens has discovered. He points out that doctors, unable to face the tragedy, will sometimes stop visiting an incurably ill child, and that nurses may try not to become emotionally involved. Clergymen frequently abandon bereaved mothers and fathers as soon as the funeral is over. Even close relatives, trying to be helpful, often remove every trace of the dead child-his books, clothes and toys and games-and encourage parents to forget at a time when their real need is "to work through their grief by talking incessantly and by remembering...