Word: feiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of them German and German-Swiss, who were commissioned to write it by Europe's Herder publishing house. The Catechism grew out of conversations at Vatican Council II between the Rev. Lukas Vischer, the top theologian at the World Council of Churches, and his friend Father Johannes Feiner, who was later appointed to the Pope's theological commission. Although Vischer and Feiner edited the book, it lacks official Protestant status, and the Vatican has made no comment...
...ASSIGNMENT of responsibility in a chaotic situation, however, is often difficult. In Feiner us. New York (1950), the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a speaker for disorderly conduct on the grounds that his soapbox talk inflamed his audience to the point of violence. Feiner was speaking to a racially mixed audience and "gave the impression that he was endeavoring to arouse the Negro people against the whites, urging that they rise up in arms and fight for equal rights." When an aroused member of the audience told a police officer at the scene, "If you don't get that...
...majority of the Court felt that the imminence of violence and the provocative words of the speaker justified the police action. Justices Black and Douglas dissented. They argued that Feiner deserved protection from a hostile audience and that the threat of one man to assault the stage did not indicate disorder. If anyone was to be arrested, it should have been the angry member of the audience. Black cited testimony which claimed Feiner had exhorted the crowd to go "arm in arm" to a Young Progressives of America meeting, rather than to "rise up in arms" as a majority...