Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter from a Mr. Marlowe [Jan. 13] refers to the "peaceful dignity" and "serene beauty" found in the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. If dignity is found in plate-glass windows, why aren't the Protestants holding services in greenhouses? If "serene beauty" means blank walls, there are air-raid shelters. Granted we Catholics occasionally lapse into the tranquilized interiors of modern-style architecture, but when we do, it is only to share the blame Mr. Marlowe claims other religions have total right...
...crusade began in 1955 when the state legislature passed the famed Broyles law requiring public employees to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath to uphold the U.S. and Illinois Constitutions. Lutheran Andersson decided that the oath was a subtle limitation on an American's freedom to speak his mind. Unlike the hundreds of teachers who agreed with him but still bowed to the law, he flatly refused to sign. "I pledged my allegiance to the United States and to God when I took my citizenship oath in 1932," said he. "Must I then swear loyalty...
Hungary's short and bloody revolution against its Communist overlords in October 1956 was a chance for the churches to make a break for freedom. Pro-Red Calvinist Bishop John Peter was deposed, as was Lutheran Bishop Lajos Veto. Staunchly anti-Red Bishop Lajos Ordass was freed from house arrest, resumed his post as primate of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. It was a year before the Communist regime of Janos Kadar was ready to move in again on the churches, but now the process is well under...
Collaborationist Bishop Veto announced last week that he had replaced Bishop Ordass as Lutheran Presiding Bishop of Hungary. At the same time Bishop Veto and his fellow traveler, Calvinist Bishop Albert Bereczky, were decorated with the Banner Order of the Hungarian People's Democracy, second class, one of the highest decorations available to nonmembers of the Communist Party. (Roman Catholic Archbishop Josef Groesz received the same decoration earlier in the month...
Applying the screws with one hand, the Communists did some back-patting with the other, deferred a scheduled 25% cut in state funds for the Calvinist Church. But inside and outside Hungary there were no doubts about what was going on. Said West Germany's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover: "There could not have been a more effective way of spreading suspicion against the Hungarian regime and its basic ideology...