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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions a year. Largest of the religious agencies in scope of operation is Catholic Relief Services, a charity sponsored by the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, which is funded through an annual collection taken up in every American parish and supplemented by a Thanksgiving Day clothing drive. Last year CRS dispatched cash and material gifts worth $11.5 million to South Viet Nam, where the agency supports such projects as 200 schools, 30 hospitals, 77 orphanages and ten old-folks homes. Operating independently of CRS is another Catholic organization, Caritas International, the Vatican's worldwide relief agency, which since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: A Call to Suffering | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Although undertaken in a spirit of Christian altruism, church-run relief services have not escaped criticism. Some American Catholic critics of the war were shocked to discover that CRS has for two years been helping distribute U.S. surplus food to families of South Viet Nam's 700,000-member local militia, at the request of General William Westmoreland. Defending the arrangement, CRS officials pointed out that the low-paid militiamen are often away on duty and unable to provide sufficiently for their families. Because of the well-established Roman Catholic structure in Viet Nam, CRS is able to ensure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: A Call to Suffering | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...neutral in their attitude toward the war and its outcome. "We are social workers and Christians and, as such, do not get involved in political questions," says Neil Brenden. "We're here to do a job." Adds Father Robert L. Charlebois of Gary, Ind., Viet Nam director of CRS: "We are here on the invitation of the government of Viet Nam to help needy people. We don't care how their need has arisen as long as they are truly in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: A Call to Suffering | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...eighteenth-century French composer, Louis Claude Daquin, on the reedy, mock-sixteenth-century Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture (Columbia ML 5567). And the Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a loyal label a handsome election of the more worth while --Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose." Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the Sussex Carol and "The Holly and the Ivy." The Glee Club, recorded in Memorial Church, sings under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, and performs with...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Old 'Crimson's' Guide to Christmas Cheer: 'II | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...eighteenth-century French composer, Louis Claude Daquin on the reedy, mock-sixteenth-century Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Columbia ML 5567). And the Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a local label a handsome selection of the more worthwhile Christmas carols--Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams' arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose," Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the sussex Carol, and "The Holly and the Ivy." The Glee Club, recorded in Memorial Church, sings under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, and performs with its usual fluency...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Old 'Crimson's' Guide to Christmas Cheer | 12/20/1961 | See Source »

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