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...rabbis rarely appear more than once or twice a semester--and when they do, it is not a Jewish service which they conduct but rather a "Protestant order" of worship with a sermon from the Jewish point of view. This policy change does not, however, alleviate the perfectly justified complaint of one Jewish girl that "it is morally wrong to require anyone to go to church." If Mount Holyoke intends to continue admitting students of all faiths on a non-sectarian basis, it would seem fitting that the college alter its church requirement, so that no girl would be compelled...
These desires are being satisfied more each year. I went to several churches on Sunday, and all were jammed. Outside the Baptist Church, a hundred or so people were standing in the sun, greeting each other, discussing the sermon-and other matters, including Lebanon and even Hungary-while a cop on the corner twirled his stick and whistled. I was told of, but did not see, leaflets which have appeared criticizing government policies. The Lubianka, the huge secret police building where in the '30s the lights burned most of every night, now looks nearly deserted, and, indeed, people...
Four of his six brothers were in the Catholic clergy, his other kin deeply anti-Puritan. Gage himself, while avoiding prosecution as a priest, got help, refuge and money from his family and Catholic sympathizers. At length he preached a sermon of recantation in St. Paul's just six days after King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham and began war against his Puritan Parliament. Thereafter, Gage sent to torture and the scaffold an old schoolmate from St. Omer's, a Jesuit priest. There is also some evidence that he actually informed...
Your story on the poverty of pastors [July 14] is ecclesiastical propaganda and misleading. While the typical "Man of God" is reclining in his air-conditioned office mulling over a sermon that he has delivered a hundred times, the people financially footing the bill are hard at work in field and factory. Any resemblance between the modern preacher and the lowly Nazarene is accidental and incidental...
...sermon was concluded with Pusey's hope that the total experience of the Seniors at Harvard would help them realize the "enlightenment and joy of belief...