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...evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere is the clash currently more bitter than in the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, whose biennial convention in Milwaukee last week boiled over into a savage debate over the future direction of the denomination...
Niebuhr was a preacher's kid from Missouri who said that he got into Yale Divinity School because they were hard up for students; his degree was from Elmhurst (Ill.) College, a small, then unaccredited school run by his Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ. "I desired relevance rather than scholarship," he recalled and, rather than earn a doctorate, he plunged into an industrial parish in Detroit. His 13 years as pastor there honed his moral passion. After visiting a sick, unemployed Ford worker in 1927, he wrote bitterly...
Under normal circumstances, election as Patriarch of a church of 40 million souls would be the desire of a priest's lifetime. That is probably not so for Metropolitan Pimen of Kolomna, 60, who was chosen last week by the Holy Synod, meeting in Zagorsk outside Moscow, to head the Russian Orthodox Church. A pliable moderate who has been caretaker head of the church since the death of Patriarch Alexei 13 months ago, Pimen faces enough problems to tax an archangel...
...most visible index of the conference's shift to the right was its selection of delegates to the worldwide synod of bishops in Rome this autumn, which will discuss problems of the priesthood. The only progressive in the delegation is Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, a natural choice since he heads the U.S. conference. The others are clearly conservatives: Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, St. Louis' John Cardinal Carberry and Co-Adjutor Archbishop Leo C. Byrne of St. Paul and Minneapolis, one of the principal critics of the Armbruster report and a major figure...
...reached a "moral consensus" in favor of change-a reference to the increasing number of divorces among Anglicans, as well as almost everyone else. The proposal, which would affect only Church of England members and not Episcopalians in the U.S. or Anglicans elsewhere, will be debated at a general synod this year. Though the English church can act on its own, it may wait for a decision from the world's Anglican bishops when they assemble again, seven years from...