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...Angeles, the fathers sometimes make wry mention of the C.C.C.-the Cardinal's Carpet Club of parish priests who have incurred the wrath of James Francis Mclntyre, 78, the tough-willed, conservative Roman Catholic archbishop. Last week a leading member of the club, the Rev. John Coffield, 50, pastor of Ascension Church, announced that after 23 years of service in the archdiocese, he was going into voluntary "exile" to work in Chicago. His reason was the same one that impelled young Father William Du Bay eight months ago to call for the cardinal's removal from office: Mclntyre...
Even more archaic than the form of Christian worship is its language. Says the Rev. Robert Raines, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa.: "Liturgy is an expression in language of our life before God. We have hymns of the four seasons, of the earth, the sky and rural life. But how many hymns are there about God in the factories? In the city slums? We are living on hymns that are an articulation of life in another term...
...today has its share of experiments looking ahead to the 21st century. In Germany, for example, the Protestant Evangelical Academies bring Christians together for weekend seminars to discuss, on a thoroughly professional level, such secular issues as urban planning and traffic problems. Mainz-Kastel is the center of Lutheran Pastor Horst Symanowski's yearly industrial seminar for ministers, who divide
...Paul Carlson's pastor, I wish to express my deepest appreciation for the magnificent way that you told the story of his martyrdom...
...your life count for the most." For Poling that meant becoming an ordained minister. In 1912 he was the Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Ohio (he lost, but remains an unwavering teetotaler). A Dutch Reformed clergyman, he has served at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, first as pastor and, since 1960, as minister emeritus. For the past 37 years, he has been editor of the Christian Herald, pulling it out of financial shambles, and building up its circulation...