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...Mobile, Ala., Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., raised a religious storm by telling a Reformation Day gathering that "the Roman Catholic Church is not at home in America. It wants to make this country predominantly a Roman Catholic country. [It] can and will win America unless Protestants heal their divisions and get together." Retorted the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, Jesuit president of Alabama's Spring Hill College: "If there ever was a time when all Christians ought to stand together, regardless of recognized differences, this seems to be the hour...
...pattern was being broken at Chicago's Presbyterian McCormick Theological Seminary-so named since 1886 because of the generous endowments of Farm Machinery Maker Cyrus H. McCormick. Last week a theology professor was showing a visitor around. "By the way," he remarked, "we never refer to death as the Grim Reaper around here. It's always the International Harvester...
...come to Washington to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whom he had never met. He found Dulles a relaxed, amiable host, who appeared to want to talk mostly about religion. "He seemed to know all about my church work," says Prochnow, who, like Dulles, is a prominent Presbyterian layman...
...General Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. approved an exchange visit of church leaders between Russia and the U.S. in the indefinite future. The proposal, said Council President Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), came originally from the Russians. After communicating with Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and the U.S. State Department, Dr. Blake said, he expects a Russian delegation of Baptists, Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...similar church group, called Divorcees Anonymous, has been at work in Los Angeles for five years. Affiliated with Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, the organization has a committee of 25, including ministers, doctors, psychologists and laymen, who make themselves available at all times to help any of their 200-odd fellow members. But it is the church itself that seems to be the most help. "I was touched by the look of forlornness on these people," said Hollywood Presbyterian's Pastor Raymond I. Lindquist. "There's no glamour about them, just a climate of failure. You could...