Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...Good Episcopalian Bess Truman was horrified, called out to Harry to stop-but he seemed not to hear. Recalls Bess: "I had to walk before the Baptists and the Methodists and tell him to stop cutting the grass on Sunday morning. He grinned at me, shut off the mower, put it in the garage-and he has not cut a blade of grass since that Sunday morning...
...also editor of the small music publishing house Elkan-Vogel, which has published his paperbound Hymns and Responses for the Church Year ($1). An eclectic churchgoer himself, Persichetti expects his hymnal to appeal to adven turous congregations of all Protestant denominations. Choir directors at Lu theran, Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches have already indicated interest...
...Enrico C. S. Molnar of Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...
...moral of the story seems to be "for an honest evaluation of the Roman Catholic Church, ask an Episcopalian...