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There is only one reason for the existence of the Roman Catholic parochial schools, and that is to teach the Roman Catholic religion, which is unacceptable to me, a Presbyterian. I hold no resentment toward the members of that church. Nevertheless, I do not want one cent of my tax money to be used for the teaching or advancement of their religion. By the same token, I do not expect them to pay one cent of tax money toward the support of, or the teaching by, my church...
...Representatives. Once they preached at the Capitol on Sundays. Today their duties consist of a short prayer beginning each day's session, plus sick calls, marriages, baptisms, funerals and spiritual counsel for the legislators and their staffs. For this, Methodist Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris of the Senate and Presbyterian Chaplain Bernard Braskamp of the House are paid $8,800 a year...
...more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about T. S. Eliot. In this, as in other matters, Author Fitch is rather too much the glib child of his times. In the '20s Author Fitch was a student expatriate in Paris and an atheist (originally a Presbyterian, he later became a Congregationalist). In the '30s he was a Socialist bent on electing Norman Thomas. In the '50s he became a conservative and began writing sophisticated, neo-orthodox epistles to the agnostics. Tacking with such skill with each decade's winds of doctrine, Fitch almost manages...
Nineteen nationally known Protestant and Jewish leaders-among them, retired Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, retired Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake. Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-signed an opinion that "it would be most unfortunate for a major church to press its own interests in a way that would threaten the strengthening of our basic educational system." Dr. Robert E. Van Deusen of the National Lutheran Council told the House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus...
...years the Dillers drifted from occupation to occupation, mainly in California. He worked for everyone from the U.S. Navy to Sears. Roebuck, while she wrote news paper society columns, did merchandising work in radio. On the side, she ran the children's choir at the Alameda Presbyterian Church (she had the kids sing through Campbell soup cans, amplifying their voices considerably...