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Protestant dissatisfaction over the chaplain shortage also got an airing. Dr. Harold John Ockenga, pastor of Boston's Park Street Church (Congregational), back from visiting Army camps in 36 states, said many had too few chaplains. The 37-year-old minister blamed the dearth of volunteers on "the pacifistic attitude and teaching of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . Thousands of young men now in the ministry have adopted this attitude...
...World War, Chaplain Landing completer his theological training at the Catholic University in Washington and at St. Meinrad's Seminary of the Benedictine order in Indiana. Upon his ordination in 1924, he began his ministry in the diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, ultimately becoming chancellor to the bishop and pastor of gigantic St. Peter's Church, Laredo, where his interest in education has found expression in the founding of a parochial school and a convent academy, both accredited to the University of Texas. For the past ten years, prior to his detail as instructor at the Chaplain School two months...
...there will be some men after the destruction of Nazism who will be recognized by their neighbors as decent and trustworthy. We do not know today who they are. But they will come" forward or be discovered when the Gestapo is no longer an omnipresent terror--perhaps a Lutheran pastor, a former burgomasters, a postman or other civil servant a decent army officer or soldier who is disillusioned about militarism, a former trade-unionist, or a brother or father who returns from a Nazi concentration camp...
...mere mental training. Chaplain Wilson's education was a preparation for his work in the Army, having worked his way through Illinois Wesleyan receiving his A.R. in '26. He graduated from North Western in '29 with the B.D. degree. Although but 20 years old, he was appointed a student Pastor and discharged these duties with great credit during his Junior and Senior years at College and the entire term of his Seminary studies. Upon graduation he immediately plunged into the active ministry, holding several Pastorates in Illinois. It was during this period that Chaplain Wilson married. The union has been...
Last week Harry Emerson Fosdick, 64, handed in his resignation after twelve years as pastor of the towering Riverside ("Rockefeller") church. The trustees, "considering the spiritual needs of these war days," would not accept it. They got Dr. Fosdick to remain by allowing him to confine his duties to preaching...