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...both capacities he has consistently espoused the down-to-earth view of religion, shown little patience with unpractical applications of faith. He stood out among U.S. Protestant leaders for a steadfast refusal to espouse pacifism after World War I. He still finds pacifism "immoral and unchristian." To those who profess it, believing they thereby follow Jesus' teachings literally, Poling quotes from P. W. Wilson's Newtopia to point out that Jesus asked nothing of society, had no home, no money, spent his life in service of others. He argues that unless a pacifist can live as Jesus lived...
...communication carried on between government and people. Without reflecting at all, necessarily, on the wisdom of the long-range policies carried out by such means, they are assisting what William Graham Sumner long ago grimly felt to be the one hope of democracy-that the men who profess it should know how it works. And in a democracy, under a two-party system, whatever political adroitness there may be in the release of news and information, it is a game at which two or more can play. Indeed, it is in its role as one of the checks and balances...
...year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils of materialism...
...first time in history, Christian ministers participated last week in observing the solemn Jewish day of mourning, Tisha b'Av. Their action was expressive of the growing understanding among religious groups throughout the civilized world. Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City urged "all who profess the Christian faith [to] understand the declaration of Pope Pius XI that 'all Christians are spiritually Semites...
...door of an office. Would that same person who placed the ad in the Crimson place a sign in the office window saying "Gentiles Preferred"? Would it be any more discriminatory if he did? Are we not firm enough in our beliefs to practice the equality we profess and, to the limit of our ability, force others to practice...