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...doctrine, the cardinal was a conservative, though he loyally implemented changes in the liturgy when they were approved by the Vatican Council. He denounced from the pulpit movies that he considered immoral, opposed public aid for birth control as strenuously as he promoted public aid for parochial schools. In a famous instance in 1949, he accused Eleanor Roosevelt of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother" for her opposition to state aid to Catholic schools...
...commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed to the war in Viet Nam-a statement which, if true, suggests that the bishop was given a Potemkin tour of the U.S., visiting only the fever swamps...
...choir sang Holy, Holy, Holy, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller mounted the pulpit of his new $3,000,000 church in Garden Grove, Calif., and pushed a button. Two 25-ft.-high sections of the glass wall before him separated slowly, leaving only open air between the preacher and nearly 1,500 worshipers in 500 cars parked below him. Schuller's nondenominational Protestant parish, as its newspaper advertisements state, is a "walkin, drive-in" church-one of more than 70 now operating across the nation...
...ministers who have tried preaching to a congregation of cars generally like the idea. They do, however, concede that there are certain inevitable dangers. Half-jokingly, the Rev. John Muller of Bethel Reformed Church, a South Miami drive-in, worries that he will one day mount the pulpit and absentmindedly intone: "Will the autos of the congregation please rise...
...Paul asked whether the clergy should take part in civil rights marches, the crush of calls jammed the station's lines and short-circuited the switchboard of the nearby Midway Hospital. Of the 4,326 callers who did get through, 62% held that clergymen should stay in the pulpit and off the pavement...