Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unChristian tempers, words or actions and imprudent or unministerial conduct" the Rev. James J. Stewart of Albuquerque was defrocked as a minister of the Methodist Church last week. His imprudent and unministerial conduct had been to bring public charges that his bishop, the Rev. W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City, had accepted fees in the form of "love gifts" for consecrating and dedicating churches, that he had allowed preachers to solicit funds for himself and his family, and that he had even permitted the superintendent of the Methodist Indian Mission Conference to solicit Indians for gifts of jewelry, saddles, beaded...
Bishop Smith, who two weeks ago began a one-year term as the world's highest ranking Methodist, president of the Council of Bishops, was cleared of Stewart's charges by his district committee. But to the Pennsylvania-born Rev. James Stewart, 51. who won his B.D. at Yale Divinity School, Bishop Smith is only a target of opportunity in a larger campaign against what he calls a widespread practice in the Methodist Church, i.e., local ministers being expected to chip in with presents for the bishop from time to time. Love gifts from congregations to pastors-including...
...grabbed the mike and laid praise about him. "I owe much to millions of people who had faith in me and who prayed for me," he said. "I owe much to Joe Louis for his moral support and knowledge of boxing. I owe much to Father Lang [the Rev. Jovian Lang of Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Seminary in Westmont, Ill.] for spiritual guidance." Robinson, explained Manager Gainford later, is a tolerant freelancer. "He will go anywhere-synagogue, Protestant Church, Catholic Church, anywhere...
...Billy's converts are only half-saved," declared the Rev. John E. Kelly, director of public information for the potent National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington...
...generally advised by their priests not to attend. But numbers of those making "decisions for Christ" at Graham's meetings turn out to be Roman Catholics (whose "pledge cards" are duly passed along to Catholic churches). Father Kelly feels that "it seems time to be specific." ¶ "Rev. Billy Graham is an ordained Baptist minister. Billy's crusades are definitely Protestant services [in which] Catholics are not permitted to participate...