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...South would like to divorce themselves from their national organizations. It is not easy. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the arguments of two breakaway congregations in Savannah, Ga., that claimed ownership of their church property. The congregations had held that property in trust for the Presbyterian Church of the U.S., but a Georgia judge had declared that such trusts may be broken if the parent church "substantially departs" from the theology that it professed at the time of the affiliation. On that ground, the jury awarded the property to the Eastern Heights and Hull Memorial Presbyterian Churches...
...JAMES A. M. HANNA United Presbyterian Church Oak Hill, Ohio...
...Protestants, perhaps the most galling provocation came last October when Catholic marchers paraded within Londonderry's Old Walls, a Unionist shrine. Convinced that the protesters had overstepped all bounds, Protestant bigots soon began organizing counterdemonstrations. Their spokesman was fiery Ian Paisley, leader of the extremist Free Presbyterian Church, who rarely misses an opportunity to vent his rabidly anti-Catholic views. He refers to the Roman Catholic church as "the greatest dictatorship in the world," and his newspaper has come up with the singular suggestion that the Viet Nam war is a Jesuit conspiracy...
...Carolina, who rallied Southern support for Richard Nixon in last year's presidential election; and Nancy Moore, 22, a blue-eyed brunette beauty (Miss South Carolina of 1965), who met the Senator two summers ago while working in his Washington office; he for the second time; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Aiken...
Thomas was born and grew up in Marion, Ohio, and earned pocket money delivering the Marion Star, published by Warren Gamaliel Harding. After Princeton, he did social work at Manhattan's Spring Street Presbyterian Church and Settlement House, traveled around the world, took a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary, and then became pastor of an East Harlem church. His work in city slums led him to socialism, and he became a pacifist during World War I, thus alienating many of his patriotic friends and earning enduring hostility from others. He entered politics in 1924 as the Socialist...