Word: pulpiteering
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...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...
Handsome, hollow-eyed, musical-voiced Monsignor Sheen, philosophy professor at the Catholic University of America, is one of the most brilliant U. S. pulpit and radio orators, and one of the most astute of Catholic minds. Before baptizing Broun, he instructed him in the faith for ten weeks. Before Broun died last fortnight, Monsignor Sheen administered to him the Church's last rites, and gave him a special blessing from Pope Pius XII. Heywood Broun, voluble to his friends on all other subjects, never talked much about Catholicism. To mourners at the funeral, Monsignor Sheen's address - which...
...presses each year roll some 500 books, innumerable pamphlets and magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...
...flood of propaganda that all observers said was sure to come. It has come, and wise newspaper readers are quickly learning to gift out some of the more flagrant stories. But there is another source of propaganda harder to spot, though no less influential. It is in the American pulpit and university, always powerful molders of public opinion. Within the past few weeks, the leaders of religion and education in this country have spoken with an amazing unanimity in strong support of the Allies. If vehemence is any test of sincerity, these men mean what they...
...century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...