Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman for the National Council of Churches. "But this weariness is reflected in such statements as, 'Let's get this war over with, even if it means major escalation.' " Said United Church of Christ Pastor William Bruce MacKenzie in Denver: "I haven't preached a sermon on Viet Nam for a long time. You get discouraged. You've said everything you had to say before, and things haven't changed...
...Archbishop Helder. Pessõa Cámara, 57, the church fought back. Four months ago, Cãmara refused to officiate at a special Mass celebrating the second anniversary of the coup because local army headquarters had demanded that he submit his sermon to censorship. In July, Dom Helder led 16 Northeastern bishops in a statement criticizing the regime for "injustices committed against the workers, whether they concern questions of salaries, pressure against class organization, or the innumerable transgressions of labor laws...
Child bored from sermon...
...congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city's Episcopal Diocese as a protest against Suffragan Bishop Paul Moore Jr.'s advocacy of .open housing and fair employment practices...
Local people are embarrassed by it. The party suffers. But what can you do?" Last week in Warsaw, following an emotional sermon from the cardinal ("We beg the authorities to stop fearing us and start loving us"), some 1,000 angry student demonstrators marched on party headquarters, defiantly shouting church slogans and singing the national anthem. They were scattered by police armed with tear gas and rubber truncheons. But it seemed unlikely that Wladyslaw Gomulka had heard the last of the protest...