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Quick to welcome the growing friendliness between Vatican and World Council under Pope John XXIII, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America and chairman of the Central Committee, observed that "there is little doubt that . . . the Vatican has come to see that the ecumenical movement is not inspired by a vague humanitarianism but by the basic Christian convictions...
...Roman Catholic Church is notoriously chary of permitting prayer with non-Catholics; so are conservative Protestants such as the Missouri Synod Lutherans (membership: 2,387,292). At a Lutheran conference on doctrinal unity in Thiensville, Wis. last week, the Rev. Martin H. Franzmann, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary, warned against closing the door entirely to joint praying: "May we not, by too facile and too simple a ruling concerning joint prayer, become guilty of crushing the bruised reed and quenching the smoldering wick, by making the names 'Confessional...
Conductor Watanabe is the son of a Finnish mother and a Japanese father who became a Lutheran clergyman. A child prodigy on the violin, he studied conducting at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Unabashedly trading on the influence of his father-in-law, Japan's then Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, Watanabe founded the Japan Philharmonic in 1956, staffed it with young Japanese musicians and one American, Concertmaster Broadus Erie, founder of Manhattan's New Music String...
Yale University Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of Lima's La Prensa, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of Peru. . .LL.D. Franklin Clark Fry, president, United Lutheran Church of America...
...Chicago's suburban Elk Grove Village, busy Lutheran Minister Martin E. Marty, who writes for the Christian Century, and who devotes much of his time to patching up corroding marriages, sighs wearily: "We've all learned that Hell is portable. I think we're seeing a documentable rebellion going on against the postwar idea of mere belongingness and sociability. We all agree that Suburbia means America. It's not different, but it's typical. Solve Suburbia's problems and you solve America's problems...