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...past ten years, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati's St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax -since 1955 he has not even filed a return. His defense: Christian principle. As a pacifist, he declines to contribute to armaments by paying taxes. Last week the feds came for Non-Taxpayer McCrackin...
...regrouping the world's dead (according to Witnesses, more than 250 billion), Pastor Russell has at last found a practical use for Texas...
...Franz. He even specified which churchmen are most responsible by virtue of supporting the U.N.-Pope Pius XII (or "the pope of Vatican City" as Knorr calls him), Monsignor Thomas A. Donnellen, vice chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the Rev. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, pastor of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Overwhelmingly, the assembly approved a resolution denouncing such leaders who "turn their backs on Jesus Christ." These leaders, said the resolution, "have not directed the people to the only means of salvation ... All the blind peoples who follow these blind religious guides will...
...just felt duty-bound not to betray a confidence," said Pastor Glisson. Other churchmen were outraged. "If this happens," said Dr. Fred Kendall, Tennessee Baptist leader, "how can church members ever confide in their ministers...
...practice, British judges have usually denied priests any legal right of refusal. But U.S. law has slowly become more lenient. Trickiest legal quibble: whether the confessional is an essential part of a church's system. Those who seek a pastor's advice on their own volition in nonconfessional churches may find their confidences are not protected by state...