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...Roman Catholic Church in regard to the "Separated Brethren." Now we Protestants must take a closer look at ourselves to see if we will use and have used the mind and spirit of Christ instead of narrow provincialism in our dealings with Rome and with one another. (THE REV.) RICHARD PARKER YAPLE...
With his high dome, big nose and white hair, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 88, looks something like a latter-day George Washington. But his thoughts go the other way. For 32 years, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury has nursed a passion for Communism. He pleaded for the U.S. to give Russia the atomic bomb, accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea. "Communism," he preached, "is doing something. It is following Christ's standards." He even attributes his vigorous health to the Reds; he and his wife inject themselves with a mysterious, Rumanian-developed novocain serum called...
Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
Cleveland's two daily newspapers were hopefully getting ready to rev up their presses following a strike that has blacked out that city's news-by-reading since Nov. 29. Two unions-the American Newspaper Guild and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters-had shut down the morning Plain Dealer and the afternoon Press & News after coming to a stalemate in negotiations on job security and wage increases. At week's end, a local citizens' committee talked the drivers into returning to work and was waiting for assent from the Guild. All told, the strike cost Cleveland...