Word: pitney
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...remember when he was a caddie at the White House); the Waldorf's Conrad Hilton (a man who is really mixing business with pleasure tonight); Mortimer Caplin (the man who can answer the all-important question, is this dinner deductible?)." After laughter, and Hope, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note that had begun it: "As we give thanks to those of every age, and especially our own who have merited and won the esteem and plaudits of their fellow men, infect us afresh with some measure...
...Switzerland, he went to Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, became full professor at Tübingen when only 32. His suggestions for Catholic renewal are published in The Council, Reform and Reunion (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), which contains approving introductory messages by two cardinals. Among Protestants, President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary praises its liberal, ecumenical spirit, and San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was so impressed that he has ordered copies for every priest in his diocese...
...between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "we are seeing right here one of the very early events in the second great Reformation of Christendom...
Many church historians regard this union of missionary and ecclesiastical ecu-menisms as almost equal in importance to the Reformation in the 16th century. Commented President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "Today we actually saw one of the very early events in the second great reformation of Christendom...
What U.S. Protestant unity needs first of all is some Episcopal unity. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's nondenominational Union Theological Seminary, last week charged the Episcopalians with being notoriously balky on the road to reunion: "All they want to do is talk and pray." Back of the balkiness is the small but powerful Anglo-Catholic wing, the high churchmen who cherish the doctrine of apostolic succession* so devoutly that the only groups they think worth talking to are other apostolic successionists. such as the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches...