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Clarence Macartney's fellow students in Princeton Seminary's Class of 1905 felt a trifle awed when Freshman Macartney began setting out on Sundays to preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...
...pastor never left Pittsburgh. To two generations of churchgoers, he has preached his same steady brand of orthodoxy, with the same grave eloquence. Sunday mornings and evenings, a good half of his 2,500-member congregation make their way downtown from outlying residential districts to hear him preach. On Tuesdays, as many as 600 local businessmen drop in at the First Church for his noon meetings (a cafeteria lunch and two short sermons...
Then Ike got down to specifics. With obvious reference to air power advocate Taft, he decried "the false prophets of living alone who preach that we need do nothing except maintain a destructive retaliatory force in the event the Russian armies should march." Such a program, he suggested, was inadequate to cope with Communist political conquest like that in Czechoslovakia. He demanded unwavering support for the U.N. and NATO and, in another sideways swipe at Bob Taft, added that "even those who blindly opposed [NATO's] launching will admit that it has stopped the spread of Communism in Europe...
After the present ultra-conservative government came into power in 1949, however, the official attitude toward Protestants changed. Many Roman Catholic priests, worried by Protestant proselytizing, began to preach inflammatory sermons. Most of the Protestants also belonged to the overturned Liberal Party; some local government officials were happy to get at political foes under the pretext of religious fervor...
...archbishop, Faulhaber found plenty of fighting at home. Munich was one of the battlegrounds of the "Spartacist" (Communist) uprising of 1919, and Faulhaber risked his personal safety to preach against the Reds. In 1921 he became a cardinal. His friend Pope Pius XII, then Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Nuncio at Munich, called him "the speaking symbol of the Church Militant...