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...convention in San Antonio, De Blanc expounded his view that women have a built-in need to procreate, that frustrating this natural consequence of sexual intercourse results in guilt, and guilt leads to psychological damage. Non-Catholic doctors and churchmen were quick to disagree. ¶ William H. Genne, a Congregationalist clergyman and De Blanc's Protestant opposite number as director of the Department of Family Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home and abroad have seen not only the debilitating physical and socio...
...raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with the century's social problems...
Some of Wellesley's ministers doubt the value of such financially motivated learning, but Congregationalist Babson, 84, dismisses their scruples. "Everything else is on salary or commission basis, including the preachers' salaries," he says...
...have greatly increased both in number and influence during the past 50 years. The prospect of Catholics' becoming the majority group may once have horrified U.S. Protestants. To what extent that climate of opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author (The Age of Jackson); Missouri Synod Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago...
Religious Lines. Kennedy might figure on an automatic advantage with the 1,200,000 fellow Roman Catholics who make up 30% of the total population. Congregationalist Humphrey expects an automatic advantage with the 1,500,000 Protestants, especially the 850,000 members of the Lutheran synods; on the other hand, he hopes to benefit from extensive campaigning by his fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy, a Roman Catholic. The Catholics of various national origins (Polish, Italian, German, Irish) are concentrated in the populous industrial areas, such as Milwaukee and La Crosse...