Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years he had been what he calls "a cross between a businessman and a nightclub entertainer." But next Feb. 2, Fordham University's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J., will exchange his budget juggling, administrative conferences, luncheon dates, and after-dinner speeches for a more peaceful program of prayer, study, sermonizing and spiritual direction of laymen. He will become Superior of the Jesuit Retreat House at Manresa, Staten Island...
When he came out of hiding, he applied to the Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Rev. H. A. Wilson, for readmission into the Church of England. Witcutt did not have to be ordained-the Church of England recognizes his Catholic orders. Last Sunday he was among the worshipers at East London's Church of St. Mary Magdalene-with-St. Bartholomew, where he has been appointed curate...
...Catholic and Jewish Churches already have nationwide organizations working on the problem, but Protestants have been slow getting started Rev. Gardner Day, president of the Council declared last night in announcing the program. "It's getting so I'll feel it's a handicap to be a Protestant Day added...
...Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Marjoe Gortner married Sailor Raymond Miller, 23, and Alma Brown, 21. Master Gortner, who was ordained last October in the Old Time Faith Church, is four years old. His father, who is a minister in the same sect, assured everybody concerned that the marriage ceremony was perfectly legal...
Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...