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...State Journal was even specifically ordained by the United Church of Christ to the vocation of religious reporting. Many of the best laymen writing religion are personally devout. A.P.'s George Cornell and U.P.I.'s Louis Cassels are practicing Episcopalians, and the Minneapolis Star's Willmar Thorkelson is an active member of the American Lutheran Church...
...week, though, it became clear that Shannon is on the other side of the argument. A confidential letter he had written to the Pope dissenting from the encyclical became public, and he was reported to have submitted his resignation. The reason for his resignation, according to Religion Editor Willmar Thorkelson of the Minneapolis Star, who broke the story, was Shannon's inability to accept the prohibition of contraception as stated in Humanae Vitae...
According to Thorkelson, Shannon wrote the Pope last September: "In my pastoral experience I have found that this teaching is simply impossible of observance by many faithful and generous spouses, and I cannot believe that God binds men to impossible standards. In seeking to counsel such persons, I have found myself resorting to all sorts of casuistry and rationalization in the hope that I might keep faith both with Your Holiness and with the people of God who seek my help. I must now reluctantly admit that I am ashamed of the kind of advice I have given some...
...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...