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...embassy in Tehran during the Christmas visit by four clergymen. The churchmen were French-born Léon-Etienne Cardinal Duval, Catholic Archbishop of Algiers, and three liberal American clerics: William Sloane Coffin Jr., senior minister of New York City's interdenominational Riverside Church; Thomas J. Gumbleton, Catholic auxiliary bishop of Detroit; and M. William Howard, president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
...controversy over the fact that some of the Americans were missing. The militants at the embassy insisted that for security reasons, no more than five hostages could meet with a clergyman at one time. After considerable argument, the clerics split up and conducted eleven separate services. Said Gumbleton: "We sang together, we prayed together and we shared the Eucharist together. I should also say that we wept together." Afterward, the churchmen tallied the number of hostages that each had seen and arrived at a total of 41 men and two women-seven short of the 50 hostages who the State...
...visited the hostages came away from subsequent meetings with Iranian officials convinced that the Ayatullah is dangerously confused about Western views of the crisis. The clerics wrote him a letter explaining that contrary to the general belief in Iran, the American people strongly support Carter's stand. Said Gumbleton: "We told them they may be misreading the situation, thinking there is a separation between the American people and the Government...
...inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits in their early 20s, and Roman Catholic Priest Tom Lumpkin of Detroit. Lumpkin carried the blessings of Detroit's two auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship. Now the two teams of representatives have issued a joint report in London "unanimously" urging increased intercommunion, more joint worship and even...
...point in history," the bishops' statement read, "it seems clear to us that whatever good we hope to achieve through continued involvement in this war is not outweighed by the destruction of human life and of moral values which it inflicts." One bishop, the Most Rev. Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, went so far as to say that anyone who reaches that moral judgment "may not participate...