Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sectarians, and always speak softly to all sects. President Hoover, Quaker, has been particularly cautious. His victory over Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith was fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious convention-as to the Catholics at Omaha (TIME, Sept. 29) or to the Lutherans at Milwaukee (TIME, Oct. 20) he tries hard to be noncommittal. But sometimes a President, or his aide, slips.* At once some sensitive soul cries out in anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent Roman Catholic flayed President Hoover for his greeting to the Lutherans, which was: Hoover...
John Joseph Burke, who last week spoke out against President Hoover in terms of a harshness such as few U. S. Presidents have endured: "It is altogether in order for President Hoover to send a message of congratulation on the civic work done by Americans of the Lutheran faith. But in the actual message which President Hoover sent to them, for the celebration of Reformation Sunday [Nov. 2], the President clearly violates the spirit, if not the letter, of his oath of office as President of the United States...
...Eucharistic Congress,, at which, I am informed, you [George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago] will preside, and my appreciation of the value of spiritual ideals and of religious observance in the life of the nation, which are indispensable foundations of the social order and of enduring political institu tions." Lutheran Aside. The Burke outburst astonished Lutherans, still at Milwaukee last week, and suggested to them a new significance in what they had considered merely a formal Presidential greeting...
...Frederick Hermann Knubel, able, aggressive president of the United Lutheran Church in America, spoke this aside: "This is no quarrel between Catholics and ourselves, but between a Catholic spokesman and the President's message...
...American Lutheran Conference; at Minneapolis. Purpose: federation of Lutheran bodies in the U. S. & Canada...