Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From, every Roman Catholic pulpit in Argentina this week, priests read a pastoral letter denouncing the Argentine government's campaign of harassment against the Catholic Church. Said the 4,000-word message, signed by 23 of Argentina's Catholic prelates: "To those who have lost their tenure, their positions, their reputations or their resources, and to those who endured imprisonment without being convicted of any crime, goes our voice of comfort and encouragement." For eight years after he became President of 93%-Catholic Argentina in 1946, Strongman Juan Peron got along well enough with the clergy. The Archbishop...
Inadequate as the present program is, the University has recently made inroads on the speech staff's time. One of its three members now advises the Debate Council while another teaches pulpit delivery at the Divinity School. Both these new duties are worthy additions to the University's program, but the department's staff should be increased accordingly...
...some of the programs' titles: So Will We Sing, Song of the Shining Mountains, This Is the Life, Bless This House, For Every Child, Look Up and Live, The Art of Living, What's Your Trouble? A happy contrast: Dr. Ralph W. Sockman's National Radio Pulpit, with a title that "conveys a true impression of what is to be offered, and does not promise you a song in your heart or a shot in the arm if you will listen...
...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...
...King of Vagabonds." Actually, Al Segal might have been a rabbi had he not found a wider pulpit in print. He was just out of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College when he got his job on the Post...