Word: lutheranism
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Bach's St. Matthew's Passion by the Bruno Kittel Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic (Brunswick, 2 records, $1 each) ?Excerpts from the devotional offering of a great Lutheran...
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...
...have any opinion, we deplore that from any Catholic source there should be any objection to President Hoover's sending a message which concerns the more than 10,000,000 of Lutheran origin." Reaction. Catholic dignitaries are never chastised publicly by their superiors. But into the White House last week poured messages of sympathy from leading Catholics who, disapproving Father Burke's outburst, appreciated how President Hoover would deplore the unpleasant and far-reaching political use that might be made of the episode, especially in the South...