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...week over the sensitive subject of Protestant-Catholic relations. Chicago's Cardinal Archbishop, Samuel Stritch, 66, sent out a carefully worded communication to all Roman Catholic churches in Illinois. Its gist: Catholics should not participate, even as observers, in the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston...
...those American Roman Catholics who have looked toward Evanston as an opportunity to increase understanding and good will between the various branches of Christendom, Cardinal Stritch's letter will have almost as shattering an effect as Leo XIII's letter on the blight of 'Americanism' had on liberal tendencies in American Roman Catholic circles in the 1890s . . . Dramatic emphasis will be given to the fact that there is a great gulf fixed between the papal church and all other churches. And the world will be told that this gulf yawns wide and deep because...
Theologians, churchmen and their followers are getting set for a high-level hassle in August, when the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches meets in Evanston, 111 . Main theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian...
...efficient men and women of New Jerusalem heard reports of mild but encouraging growth in the U.S. and the rest of the world (total membership: 25,000). Said Convention President Franklin H. Blackmer, keying his words to the main theme of the forthcoming World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston, 111.: "The Second Coming of the Lord is a process already going on, changing the very environment ... of all mankind. It is not to be a bodily Coming . . . That Second Coming is as the very spirit of truth . . . We feel Swedenborg has been a chosen instrument ... to make the truth...
...hymn written for the forthcoming Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. was judged best of nearly 500 submitted and was sung for the first time in New York City. Its author: Dr. Georgia Harkness, professor of applied theology at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. First stanza (to the tune of Ancient of Days...