Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renewal on the ecumenical movement, the World Council of Churches was acting on the need. At the end of its annual meeting last week in Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-man Central Committee voted to establish with the Vatican a joint working committee to discover areas of interfaith cooperation...
...Without a dissenting vote the church representatives decided to set up an eight-man working group that will eventually meet with a six-man committee appointed by the Vatican to discuss such issues as collaboration in charitable endeavors, joint theological studies on ecumenical relations, ways to resolve such abrasive interfaith problems as mixed marriages and religious liberty. The central committee also approved the idea of a regular exchange of visits between Rome and World Council headquarters in Geneva, which could lead to an exchange of permanent representatives...
Theological University. The success of the Union so far gives promise that it will grow. G.T.U. officials are currently discussing the possibility of bringing in Southern Baptist, Jesuit, Mormon, Missouri Synod Lutheran and Jewish institutions. They are also thinking of an interfaith program in advanced pastoral studies. Eventually, they expect there will be some common courses on the undergraduate level, and that the participating seminaries will, in effect, become member colleges of the nation's first theological university...
...dialogue, modeled loosely on the German Protestant Kirchenwoche, or church week, was organized by Lutheran Pastor Arnold Mickelson "to get people to talk about their problems and their faith, to meet the community outside the church and discuss issues the public wants to talk about." A special interfaith committee scheduled more than 200 talk-stirring events, most of them under secular auspices, while clergymen stayed discreetly in the background. The dialogue was supported by nearly all local churches and service clubs...
Outside the church, he is still blamed for using seminarians to break a cemetery workers' strike in 1949, and for engaging in a bitter public quarrel with Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt over federal aid to parochial schools. And although he now appears frequently at interfaith meetings, non-Catholic churchmen regard him as generally indifferent to ecumenism...