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...Peace. Last month the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy declared that America was fighting a righteous war. Last week U.S. Protestants made no such assertion, since there was much pacifist strength present. But both the outgoing and incoming presidents of the Federal Council spoke out. "Without war today and without victory for the United Nations," said outgoing Dean Luther A. Weigle (Yale Divinity School), "human freedom will be lost." Said incoming Bishop Tucker: "At the very least the possibility of maintaining our Christian standards in human society depends upon the defeat of those who openly and defiantly repudiate them...
...hour of stern, righteous reckoning with the foul enemy, the German Fascist occupants, has struck," said the Order of the Day. "Make the enemy's black blood flow in a river. Comrades, into the attack...
...members all over the world. Obviously, this militant indorsement of United Nations war aims would not have been made without due regard for the sympathies of Pope Pius XII. In no Axis country has the Catholic Church come out to pray for victory or pronounce the Axis' cause righteous...
Latest effort to formulate a practicable faith for a world in a flux is a brief (104-page) symposium called A Righteous Faith for a Just and Durable Peace. The pamphlet was issued by the commission picked by the Federal Council of Churches to study the basis of a Just and Durable Peace. The contributors include John Foster Dulles (head of the commission), William Ernest Hocking,Henry P. Van Dusen, Luther A. Weigle, John Mackay, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Harry Emerson Fosdick. The little 25? book brings within the reach of everyone the most recent Protestant thought on the problem which...
...choose between Christ and State is one that can be and must be rejected. To reject it involves no disloyalty to State, for what we are seeking for the American people is nothing that will prove a weakness. Our purpose is that the American people be filled with a righteous faith and sense of mission in the world...