Word: clergymen
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...John Dollard's dilemma of declining attendance following his imposition of a liturgical tax [Oct. 19] is the epitome of the clerical cancer existing in the American Catholic church today. American Catholic families have grown weary of financially supporting churches and clergymen who do not in turn support their spiritual needs. Financial boycotting-called a "greenout" in this house -is a protest against preaching to and talking down to instead of communicating with and listening to; it is against the use of dogma and doctrine instead of Christ and scripture; against irrelevant Holy Name and altar guild societies; against...
...called the conservative end of the human potentials movement. At the other, or liberal end are Esalen and all its imitators and derivatives. Somewhere in between lies the Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla, Calif., a loose confederation of 53 psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, educators, clergymen and journalists...
Drinan, who shares with a conservative Alabama Baptist minister the distinction of being the only clergymen elected to Congress, yesterday told his supporters he had won because "the people are looking for moraleadership." He predicted that "the loud and unsilent minority of war critics will grow to be an unsilent majority...
Episcopal minister S. Lester Ralph, recently elected mayor of Somerville, told me that he felt that clergymen politicians were an untapped source for relatively "dispassionate" political service. He felt that the public would find the nationally emerging new breed acceptable because there is no danger of a church takeover of the civil order, the church being "so clearly in retreat" in society...
...writing insurance in states with heavy claim losses or high auto-theft records, like New York. A number of insurers refuse burglary policies to bachelors, divorcees and widows because they live alone; others try to avoid writing auto coverage for the young, the aged, bartenders, race-track employees and clergymen.* A few companies are pulling out of the auto field entirely. Insurance companies are not obliged to underwrite doubtful risks. But applicants who are rejected for auto or housing policies can generally get at least some insurance at higher rates through assigned risk pools...