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...novenas, family study groups instead of membership in the Holy Name Society (an organization formed in part to cut down profanity). It means the displacement of what Layman Michael Novak calls "nonhistorical orthodoxy"-the abstract, rationalistic theology that has dominated Catholic thinking since the Council of Trent-by a Gospel-centered Catholicism that is open to accept the insights of Freud, Camus, and even Marx...
Married. Mahalia Jackson, 52, high priestess of Negro gospel songs; and Minters Sigmond Galloway, 47, salesman for a Gary, Ind., building contractor; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...economics from Paul Samuelson, another M.I.T. professor, whose textbook, Economics, is a standard in at least ten languages. The chief U.S. representative to the Alianza, Walt W. Rostow, is better known abroad for his Stages of Economic Growth, a do-it-yourself guide to economic development that is gospel for many leaders of underdeveloped lands. These newly arrived politicians are also avid readers of Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, whose criticism of high consumer spending and low public spending in The Affluent Society provided many of them with an apologia for their planning programs...
...such an attempt were to be made, it would, if successful, leave the Republican Party in a deeply divided state. Barry Goldwater himself would undoubtedly support Scranton or any other nominee; he has made party loyalty his gospel. But his dedicated followers have gone too far and worked too hard to accept an eleventh-hour defeat. Thus, as the situation stood last week, the G.O.P.'s probable course was to accept Goldwater, rally behind him, and work to influence him toward mainstream positions...
...Gospel cannot be preached to the hungry until they are fed, as the mission romantics claim, "then this is no Gospel with any saving power, this is no Word of God which has authority over the power of death. The Gospel is a Word which is exactly addressed to men in this world in their destitution and hunger and sickness and travail. The church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to apprehend and the courage to reveal the Word...