Word: kirchentag
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...church in the city, to the Catholic meetings. He took Munich's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Wendel as a guest in his own home. At open-air Masses in the Walbühne. Catholics worshiped before the same cross used by Protestants at last year's Evangelical Kirchentag. At Berlin's Funkturm fairgrounds, Protestant Pastor Lothar Kreyssing addressed the packed Catholic gathering and got the most thunderous applause of the day. His theme: "Aren't we all brothers...
This week Reinold von Thadden, 60, was in the U.S. for a month-long lecture tour sponsored by the National Council of Churches. He brought evidence of revived Christian zeal among German laymen. The German Evangelical (Protestant) Church Congress-the Kirchentag-which Thadden founded 2½ years ago, has become the strongest organization of Protestant laymen in Europe. More than 300,000, from Eastern as well as Western Germany, attended its Berlin rally last summer (TIME, July 23). "The layman," Thadden told a Chicago audience last week, "is ... in fact the essential interpreter of the Christian message in the battlefield...
...about organizing the new laymen's movement. His aim: "To call upon Protestant lay-Christians to assume . . . responsibility in all provinces of public life." Although Thadden was once active in practical politics (as a Conservative deputy in the prewar Reichstag), he does not want to convert the Kirchentag into a political party...
...goal of the Kirchentag is an active Christianity outside the churches as well as in them-one not so capable of being captured by a totalitarian government as it was in 1933. "The layman who is trying to be as much like a clergyman as possible," Thadden says, "is not the person we need, but the layman who recognizes his Christian vocation in his daily work . . . That is political power in a deeper sense...
...Said a Kirchentag resolution: "Our children ... do not belong ... to the state first...