Word: pulpiteering
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...Remarkable Invention. In 1956, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman condemned both the prurience and lechery in Baby Doll-a judgment delivered in the exercise of a right, but nonetheless one widely criticized as employing a pulpit so powerful that the denunciation amounted to censorship. But a change of climate was taking place, and in 1957 Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Miranda Prorsus (The Remarkable Inventions) suggested that Catholics should be more concerned about encouraging good movies than condemning bad ones...
...newspapers have dropped his column, Newsday dropped him-after exactly one year. "I regard him as an outrage as a columnist," says Larry Fanning, executive editor of the Chicago Daily News, undoubtedly speaking for many of those who dumped O'Hara. "He turned his column into a personal pulpit, which bored me and bored our readers...
Since 1964, he has been talking about Vietnam from the pulpit; on a State Department sponsored trip to India in 1964, he told the people to "pray every night to whomever you pray that Goldwater will not be elected," a move which led William F. Buckly Jr. to accuse him of prayermongering. As one Yalie put it, "whenever anything came up, he'd be there, making a meaningful commotion...
...Minister." In this nonevangelistic approach, ministers deal with student interests and problems that are mostly secular: sex, rebellion against authority, concern about jobs, the "meaninglessness" of life. Rather than hand down dicta from the pulpit, the clergymen try to help the students work out their own problems in their own way, without departing from the necessity of teaching that there are absolute rights and wrongs. Dealing with an undogmatic generation, some also see the merits of relativism. "You can't tell them what to do," says the Rev. Harwood Bartlett of Georgia Tech. Many campus ministers encourage students...
...feeling that the church should be, as San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that the co operation has been so easily accepted, suggests Chicago...