Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after Pearl Harbor, the parishioners of Brooklyn's St. Rosalia's Roman Catholic Church watched sons and brothers going off to war-and promised each other that, when victory came, they would build a shrine to Mary, Queen of Peace. Under their pastor, Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi, they dug into pockets to raise the money. By last August, after nine years of planning and giving, St. Rosalia's parishioners had their triumph: dedication of their $2,000,000 Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, a Handsome stone building decorated with mural paintings by Italian artists and fitted...
...Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
...Robert J. McCracken, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church (see below), in The Churchman...
After re-electing President Grey for his second one-year term, the Messengers discussed the problems of making new converts-especially in the North and West. The U.S. as a whole, said Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, is "a vast, lost, pagan mission field." Out of 1,400,000 school children in New England, he reported, "1,100,000 of them are growing up without any religious instruction whatsoever. In the West the story is the same . . . This is a call to arms among our Southern Baptist people...
...aims" of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion...