Word: pastoralized
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...Preaching is doomed," cried a preacher last week at the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington. He was Dr. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, slight, blond, emphatic pastor of Syracuse, N. Y.'s First Baptist Church, a onetime Navy chaplain and communications officer on the U. S. cruiser North Carolina. Dr. Clausen began broadcasting sermons in 1920. He now speaks eight or ten sentences to "appropriate" music in a morning radio service, conducts a Saturday night radio Bible class with dramatized Bible stories. Last February Dr. Clausen spoke by air to the "largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning...
...Italian district, resentful over transfer orders for their three popular priests, Revs. Simpliciano Gatt, Aurelio Marini and Basil Fresno, held the fathers captive in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel until police forced an entrance, surrounded the priests, got them out. When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cortége retired to another church. They took the front...
...Religion had been abolished; it was created three years ago, as an experiment, and has been held since its inception by the Reverend T. L. Harris, who will continue to fulfill its duties until the end of the term. The place was originally created to provide a full time pastor with whom students could consult, and who could handle the other religious problems arising in the University; it was abolished, because of the necessity for economy...
...office of adviser in Religion was established in 1930 because the University thought it would be advantageous to have a full time pastor. To avoid confusion with University preachers, he was given the title of Adviser in Religion. Harris came from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to fill the position on a three-year experimental contract...
...administration had found it increasingly difficult to keep members of the Board of Preachers at home over the week ends, and most of the visiting preachers were unable to keep office hours after the day on which they delivered the sermon. There was also felt the need of a pastor with whom students could consult on any religious problems that might arise. Recently there has been close cooperation between the office of the Adviser on Religion and the pastors in charge of young people's work in the churches that are attended by Harvard...