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...recent release from the Commission on Religion and Race of the United Presbyterian Church estimated "that Senate mail is currently running 10 and 20 to 1 against the Civil Rights Bill...
Richard E. Mumma, chaplain to Presbyterian students at Harvard and social education and action chairman of the Presbytery of Boston, has sent a memorandum to Boston-area Presbyterian ministers urging support of the rights bill...
...other faiths. Boston Irish are no longer surprised when Richard Cardinal Cushing kneels in prayer in an Episcopal church. For the first time since he became Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman attended a Protestant funeral last week. The service was for Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the Presbyterian wife of the city's Catholic mayor; the Cardinal also authorized her burial in a Catholic cemetery. The Episcopal Bishop of Colorado has spoken at a Knights of Columbus Mass in Pueblo, and last month Los Angeles' sternly conservative James Cardinal McIntyre astounded most of his flock by agreeing...
Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
Relaxing Tension. Trickling down to congregational level, ecumenism has notably relaxed sociological tension, created a national fad for visits to other people's churches. In Pittsburgh, estimates the Rev. Donald Prytherch of Bethel United Presbyterian Church, at least one-third of all Protestant sermons now make reference to Christian unity. "This simply couldn't have happened five years ago," he says. Kansas City's Country Club Christian Church has invited pastors from 31 different denominations to speak from its pulpit...