Word: episcopalian
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...Information." Not until 1939 did the U.S. re-establish formal contact with the Papacy. Franklin Roosevelt sent Episcopalian Myron Taylor to the Vatican as his personal representative. When Taylor resigned in January 1950, the post was not filled, and Vatican officials often made it clear that they were intensely unhappy about this lapse. When asked to comment on events in the U.S., they were inclined to reply somewhat peevishly: "We have no information on anything that goes on in America...
Last week the President's announcement brought "utmost joy" at the Vatican. General Clark, now chief of Army Field Forces, was commander of the army that liberated Rome in 1944. An Episcopalian and a 33rd degree Mason, he became a firm friend of Pope Pius XII. Clark will not be a mere Minister, as was his predecessor, Rufus King. His title will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,* and his appointment will probably be followed by the naming of a Papal Nuncio...
Pastor Charles W. Phillips of Des Moines' First Unitarian Church testified that many theologians are in "complete disagreement" over Christianity's fundamental principles. Four more ministers-two Lutherans, a Baptist and an Episcopalian-did their earnest best, and made confusion worse confounded...
After that day in 1939, James Jefferson Davis Hall, Alabama-born Episcopalian who moved to Manhattan in 1924, spent most of his time answering calls to his number, Circle 6-6483. It was an unorthodox mission, but the spry, bearded old pastor had never let custom stand in his way. For nine years, from 1928 to 1937, he had preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each...
Like many another scientist, Physicist Pollard has thought deeply about man's failure, so far, to cope with the powers which science has unleashed. He finds his main assurances in Christian faith and hope. An Episcopalian all his life, he strongly objects to any suggestion "that I am an atomic scientist who, disillusioned, has taken to religion...