Word: interfaith
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...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...
Exchanging Collections. Interfaith ministerial conferences that meet regularly have sprung up all across the country. A number of Catholic institutions have organized summer retreats for Protestant ministers. Several churches have adopted Swiss Lutheran Theologian Oscar Cullman's proposal to exchange Sunday collections. In San Francisco recently, Sacred Heart High School gave a love offering for the poor to a nearby Lutheran church. The pastor responded by setting up an award for the outstanding student at Sacred Heart...
...pursuit of common understanding has led to common ecclesiastical action, notably in the fields of youth work and civil rights. In Chicago, the year-old interfaith Conference on Religion and Race has trained teams of ministers to help resolve tensions in racially mixed areas; it plans to put pressure on banks to use church funds only for projects that foster integration, such as unsegregated housing. This fall, 20,000 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen in Houston will cooperate on a city-wide church census. Mutual concern for backsliders has tempered ecclesiastical competition somewhat. Undermanned Catholic dioceses in the Southwest...
...significant statistics on Judaism and interfaith marriages were summed up by Sociologist Erich Rosenthal in the 1963 American Jewish Year Book, prepared by the American Jewish Committee. In Greater Washington, D.C., the rate of mixed marriages is 17.9% for Jews of the third generation and after, compared with 1.4% for foreign-born Jews. In at least 70% of such mixed marriages, the children are not raised as Jews. Assimilation is an even greater problem in small communities, where the Jewish choice of partners is limited; in Iowa, for example, about 42% of the state's Jews normally marry outside...