Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian Ficthorne Reisner, of Manhattan, Broadway Temple's publicity expert pastor, told his followers how to recognize speakeasies, described his own adventures inside them. Dr. Reisner tells the men at the peepholes: " 'This is Christian F. Reisner, the pastor of Broadway Temple.' I make no bones about that. Usually I am admitted, and a surprising number of the bartenders have heard of me. Sometimes the customers drink in my presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren...
Clergymen have been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city...
...State had argued that there is nothing in the constitution of the Lutheran Augustana Synod which would forbid a pastor from revealing information given to him at a confessional. Judge Guilford said he did not regard the Lutheran confession as binding upon the pastor, as is the Catholic confession. To this line of reasoning, the Rev. Leonard Kendall, a colleague of Pastor Swenson, replied...
...Common law always is regarded by courts unless a statute is found which supersedes it.* It is the common law of the church, even if it is not one of the rules, that a pastor who receives information in confidence must not reveal...
...most States such provisions are regarded by pastors and parishioners as protection from the pryings of the law. But Judge Guilford of Minneapolis construed the matter otherwise. Arnold Sundseth, he pointed out, had sought his pastor's advice entirely of his own volition, he was not obligated by any rule of the Lutheran church to make any sort of a confession. The statute therefore, did not apply. While many a U. S. Lutheran waited to hear whether his voluntary confessions to his pastor might some day be exposed before all men, Pastor Swenson was given a 30-day stay...