Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince's side last week was his good friend and royal chaplain, the Very Rev. J. Francis Tucker ("Father Tuck"), 66, a Delaware-born Roman Catholic priest who went to Monaco five years...
...Before the sixth annual meeting of the National Council of Churches Division of Home Missions, the Rev. Willard M. Wickizer of Indianapolis predicted that if the ratio of church membership to population in the U.S. remains constant until 1975, Protestants will have to lay out some $8 billion for the construction of 105,000 new church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion...
...called for relaxation of the Lutheran attitude to divorce. The commission's report would supersede the code adopted in 1930, under which only "innocent" parties to divorce granted for adultery or desertion could be remarried-and not within a year of the divorce. "Our new stand," said the Rev. William C. Zimmann, chairman of the commission, "recognizes a more realistic view ... It doesn't mean that a person will be permitted to marry the day after he obtains a divorce, but it will be easier for the church to look at the whole matter." The new position...
From the pulpit of St. Paul's the Rev. George Arthur Lewis Lloyd, vicar of Chiswick and rural dean of Hammersmith, last month called for disestablishment. Was state protection of the church, he asked, "worth the high price that is paid for it? limitation of her spiritual freedom, denial of any choice in the appointment of her leaders, and insidious secularism which results from the constant attempt to impose upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications...
...modern America. His emphasis on existentialism, expressed in such sermons as "Man Against Mass Society" and in his undergraduate course on "Religion and Culture," has particularly attracted college students who, as the Professor says, "have been disillusioned by science." And in his four months at Harvard, according to the Rev. Frederic Kellogg of Christ Episcopal Church, "Tillich has crystallized the great religious interest that was already here...