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...rally supporting the priests, and 90% of the parish members signed a petition asking that they be reinstated. Mindful of the Paulists' ecumenical pioneering, a number of Protestant ministers wrote to the bishop asking him to reverse the decision. "What Bishop Gorman has done," said the Rev. Robert Matheny of Richardson's First Christian Church, "is like a football team that has driven all the way down the field, has a first down and goal to go on the five-yard line, and punts." The Paulists' superior general, the Very Rev. John F. Fitzgerald, called the bishop...
...most part, though, missionaries are accepting the conversions as a genuine response to the message of Christ. The Rev. Addison J. Eastman, mission director of the National Council of Churches' Asia department, believes that many of the converts are inspired by "a personal faith, and real hope that the Christian church can provide a base from which to work for humane social progress...
When San Francisco-area Episcopalians chose the Right Rev. C. Kilmer Myers as Bishop of California last September, there was some hope that he might prove a little less of a headlinemaker than his resigning predecessor, James A. Pike. No such luck. Soon after he was elected bishop, Myers denounced the Episcopal Church for being guilty of "the heresy of racism." A fervent Viet Nam dove, Myers later attacked Francis Cardinal Spellman's statements supporting the war as "outrageous," and piously implored: "May God and Pope Paul forgive him." Last week Myers suggested that all of Christianity should accept...
...other Episcopalians were not so enthusiastic. Michigan's Episcopal Bishop Richard Emrich, a convinced ecumenist himself, warned that "one of the great facts of the world is not that you desire unity but that there are real differences of belief." One such difference was pointed out by the Rev. Carl Howie of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church: "In a large segment of the Christian Church, we consider Jesus Christ the chief pastor...
...Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, D.LET., president of the Lutheran Church in America. His religious philosophy is expressed in his own words. "America needs a vertebrate religion. It needs a spine up the back which will hold the body together...