Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond personality and technique, Murrow's persuasiveness is rooted in a prickly social conscience and a sense of mission about keeping people informed. An NBC cynic has versified: "Nobody's brow furrows like Edward R. Murrow's." Murrow's worried look is genuine. "He internalizes world events," says a friend. "They flow right through him like a stream. The fall of Britain would have been as meaningful to him as the loss of a child to one of us." This outsized sense of responsibility fills Murrow's work with conviction and sincerity. Says a colleague...
...when he arrived in Rome in 1510 on a minor mission for his order, the young Augustinian monk of Wittenberg, Martin Luther by name, fell on his knees and cried: "Hail to thee, O Holy Rome!" Luther "went through all the devotions of a pilgrim . . . and earned so many indulgences that he almost wished his parents were dead, so that he might deliver them from purgatory...
...Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...
...Catholic missionaries, and the native clergy is growing at the rate of 200 to 300 new priests a year. U.S. Catholics were chided by Father Ralph Wiltgen of the Society of the Divine Word for a "certain smugness" about their financial contributions (about 70% of the total) to Catholic missions and for the small U.S. representation (5%) among mission clergy and lay workers...
...Catholic singled out for praise at the conference: St. Louis Real Estate Man Oliver Lafayette Parks (an old airman who founded Parks Air College, donated it after the war to the Catholic St. Louis University). Parks received the church's World Mission Award for popularizing mission work. His program: an organization of about 1,200 businessmen, each of whom donates 25? a day to missions by cutting the price of his lunch or otherwise not spending a quarter, offers a daily prayer for missions...