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...respected matrons in the upper-middle-class Chicago suburb of Riverside. Frances ("Frankie") Murphy, 47, wife of a vice president and general counsel of the Borg-Warner Corp., had four children, and, like her two friends, was a dedicated community leader and an active member of Riverside's Presbyterian Church. Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of a vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, had two children. Lillian Getting, 50, wife of an Illinois Bell Telephone Co. official, had three children...
...life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious groups in the U.S. have taken stands against capital punishment: the Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...anyone could remember, it had never happened before: the same article was published simultaneously in the Protestant weekly Christian Century and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal. Appropriately, the article concerned better interfaith understanding. To further that cause, Presbyterian Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of systematic theology at Manhattan's nondenominational Union Theological Seminary, undertook to set up "half a dozen ground rules" for conducting the growing "dialogue" between Catholics and Protestants...
Rule No. 2: Each partner must have a clear understanding of his own faith. Protestants will have more difficulty with this stipulation than Catholics, suggests Presbyterian Brown, partly because Protestantism is less dogmatic and partly "because of a longstanding and baleful American tendency to equate the Protestant faith with 'what I find appealing.' " This will mean "some strenuous intramural debate" in Protestantism...
...There was great emphasis on religion," Reston remembers. Playing cards were not allowed in the house. On Sundays the whole family walked two miles to morning Presbyterian services in Renton, Father Reston's birthplace, repeated the four-mile round trip for vespers. Sunday meals were cold, having been prepared the night before so that there would be no cooking on the Sabbath. Long hours of Bible and poetry reading inspired in Jimmy's heart the ambition to be a preacher, a calling that Reston's mother stoutly-and with considerable point-insists he is following today...