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...contributing actively to the relief of the Vietnamese, to the tune of millions a year. Largest of the religious agencies in scope of operation is Catholic Relief Services, a charity sponsored by the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, which is funded through an annual collection taken up in every American parish and supplemented by a Thanksgiving Day clothing drive. Last year CRS dispatched cash and material gifts worth $11.5 million to South Viet Nam, where the agency supports such projects as 200 schools, 30 hospitals, 77 orphanages and ten old-folks homes. Operating independently of CRS is another Catholic organization, Caritas...
...picture was impressive. Although one of the nation's smaller sees (membership: 491,434), Baton Rouge has boosted its net assets an average of $3.4 million a year since 1962, largely as the result of parish-based tithing programs and a successful diocesan development fund. Overall, Baton Rouge's assets total $44.2 million, of which $38.4 million consists of buildings and real estate. The diocesan debt is a modest $3.4 million, which is being retired at the rate of 11% a year...
...Sissified Lamb. Hard work and evangelism came readily to Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...danger of spinning off into the blue" and becoming the private province of an ecumenical clique. He believes that ecumenical discussion, hitherto largely limited to a cadre of top theologians, needs to bring in significantly wider echelons of the church at large. "What we need," he says, "are parish priests, members of the bureaucracy, people who can give practical application to what goes on at these meetings. The discussions tend not to run down but to go round and round, and the way out of the circle is through church organization to the parishioners...
...dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London-"the parish church of the British Empire"-has traditionally been a preacher of scholarship and fire. Humanist John Colet, who held the post from 1505 to 1519, was the learned friend of Erasmus and More. John Donne, during the reign of James I, uttered sermons from St. Paul's pulpit that will ring in human ears as long as the bell tolls for mankind. From 1911 to 1934, Anglicanism's most prestigious preaching office was occupied by "the Gloomy Dean," William Ralph Inge, who outraged England with his then...