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...have better luck against the proposed copper mines. After Bishop Francisco Reus-Froylan of Puerto Rico persuaded the church to hold hearings about the project, five other denominations with extensive stock in the mining companies joined the inquiry: the American Baptist Convention, the United Methodists, the United Presbyterians, the Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ. The hearings in Puerto Rico revealed cause for concern; among other things, they showed that neither government nor mining firms had made plans for relocating displaced farmers, and that no conclusive investigation of environmental hazards had been completed. The mining companies...
...other countries, are as much sermons as news. Though he has pet causes-liberal abortion laws, integration, Israel and theological freedom-his real enthusiasm is saved for his pet peeves, among them capital punishment, conservative theology and Black Power. His campaigns have led him into regular fulminations against the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention and, most important, his own church. Episcopal funding of militant (and separatist) black groups has led Kinsolving, who once warned of a rightist takeover of his church, into unlikely alliances with conservatives in attacks on Episcopal leadership...
...United Church of Christ to the vocation of religious reporting. Many of the best laymen writing religion are personally devout. A.P.'s George Cornell and U.P.I.'s Louis Cassels are practicing Episcopalians, and the Minneapolis Star's Willmar Thorkelson is an active member of the American Lutheran Church...
...Lutheran participants urged their own churches to acknowledge Roman Catholic validity. Member churches, they suggested, should "declare formally" that Catholic clergy "are engaged in a valid ministry of the Gospel" and that "the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are truly present in their celebrations of the sacrament of the altar...
...mutual understanding, individual ministers and priests were warned to wait for the recommendations to be acted on by their churches and resist the temptation to take "private action." One sort of action feared was taken only a month before the announcement, in Chicago, when a Lutheran pastor and two Catholic priests celebrated a Communion service together. Ecumenical officers of both churches labeled the service irregular...