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Silent Husbands. With help from 22 churches, Professor Leiffer & associates interviewed one or both partners in 743 "mixed" marriages. More than one-third (271) were marriages of Lutherans and Roman Catholics; marriages of non-Lutheran Protestants to Catholics (209) were almost equaled in number by interdenominational marriages between Protestants...
...career as a theologian, Luther A. Weigle got an early start. When he was eleven, he was hired as a special correspondent of the Altoona (Pa.) Tribune to write news reports of his Lutheran father's sermons. At 48, he capped his career by becoming dean of the Yale University Divinity School. Last week Luther Weigle announced his resignation, at the retirement...
...only prominent churchman not on hand was the one man chiefly responsible for bringing the unification about-Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. The white-bearded grand old man of German Protestantism, who turned 80 last month, was too ill to attend...
...East. Principal task of the delegates who met at Bielefeld last week was to elect a successor to venerable Bishop Wurm. They chose another big figure in German Protestantism. Like Wurm, the new chairman, stocky, white-goateed Bishop Otto Dibelius, Lutheran Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, was unbending in his opposition to the Nazis. Barred from the pulpit, he defied Nazi orders against speaking and writing, and was brought to trial. When Minister for Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl shouted at him: "What right have you to speak for the Church, now that you have been dismissed from your religious duties...
Frederiksted Lutheran Church...