Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fond of setting precedents is the 111-year-old First Unitarian Congregation of Rochester, N. Y., where the theory of evolution was first expounded from a U. S. pulpit, the first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation set what it believed was another precedent: it invited two rabbis to help ordain Member James Ziglar Hanner to the Unitarian ministry, closed the ordination service with the medieval Hebrew hymn Yigdal, sung in English...
...from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal Council published the President's reply. Ex-Tycoon Taylor (U. S. Steel), said Mr. Roosevelt, "is in Rome as my special representative. This appointment does not constitute the inauguration of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican." Both to the Federal Council and the Christian...
Fortnight ago scholarly, purse-lipped Dr. Morrison in a lengthy editorial branched out into broader aspects of the Taylor controversy: "Protestantism is the majority faith in the United States. The so-called interfaith movement derived its initiative from Protestantism. The movement arose be cause Protestants said: We who are the dominant faith in American democracy ought to exercise tolerance toward Catholics and Jews...
...finest and most grateful developments in contemporary American culture. ... As between Protestants and Catholics the situation stands otherwise. In terms of reciprocity, the results are negligible. The Catholic contact with this movement has been hardly more than a discreet gesture with the finger tips. ... Its reserved cooperation in the interfaith movement has been utilized more for purposes of placing Catholicism in a good light before the general community, and especially of breaking down Protestant 'prejudice,' than for self-examination as to whether it might be, here or there, taking unfair advantage of the liberty of the democratic process...
Because Roman Catholics believe that theirs is the one & only True Church, they are discouraged from attending heretical or schismatic religious services-i.e., any but their own. Many Roman bishops restrain their priests, and refrain themselves, from joining interfaith gatherings, where their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night...