Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Primary Need." But the President's air of finality just fanned the sparks. Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the White House. The bishop: "The President has chosen to refuse . . . to allow this nation of abundance to meet a primary need of countries who want aid towards population control to help avert increasing starvation and misery." In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. R. Norris Wilson, overseas relief director of the National Council...
...tragic, said Dr. John C. Bennett, Congregational minister and faculty dean of New York's Union Theological Seminary, to see Catholic leaders pressing "a point of view . . . which has no sound moral or religious basis, and which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded to know if the Catholic bishops' policy "is binding...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...
...Program. Obviously enjoying the controversy he had provoked, Bishop Pike remarked blandly: "The asking of [my] question does not militate against any particular Roman Catholic candidate who, as an American citizen, and hence not subject to ecclesiastical force, can disavow the policy which the hierarchy of his church has proclaimed." At week's end, a spokesman for the aid-dispensing International Cooperation Administration said that not a penny of U.S. foreign aid had been spent to spread birth control information overseas, added that "no such action was contemplated." Hence, said he, the controversy was actually "very academic...
...lively 19th century dispute with Hegel, Russell triumphs over the ponderous metaphysics of German idealism. In this victory can be heard the thud of Dr. Johnson's boot against the stone in the good doctor's celebrated refutation of Bishop Berkeley's notion that matter is something in one's mind...