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Organizing Debate. Attacks on the Administration's actions have not been limited to individual pastors. This year the annual conferences of the Church of the Brethren and the Central Conference of American Rabbis issued formal statements criticizing U.S. policy in Viet Nam; so did the executive committee of the Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns. The Protestant magazines Christianity & Crisis and The Christian Century recently published a joint appeal to the National Council of Churches, urging it to take a more active role in organizing debates on foreign policy. As it happens, the council twice this year has issued...
...emphasize a point of doctrine. In Luke 1:28, where the Protestant RSV has the Angel Gabriel addressing Mary as "Hail, O favored one," the Catholic version says "Hail, full of grace"-the traditional beginning of the "Hail Mary" prayer. In 17 passages, the Catholic RSV refers to the "brethren" of Jesus rather than to his "brothers...
...poured about a billion and a half dollars into the new state, although only a few thousand have answered ex-Premier Ben-Gurion's call to become Israeli citizens. Israelis are sometimes skeptical of such vicarious participation in their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige in a warrior-loving world. For 20 centuries, returning to Jerusalem was only a dim hope of Jewish prayers; now that...
...long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church of Scotland: "My brethren, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken." Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy sounded less patient when he remarked at Notre Dame that "often the least learned make the most noise...
...privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision." Finding no such specific covering privacy, Black, who is often accused of scorning "judicial restraint," proceeded to rake his brethren for imposing their subjective feelings on a legislature. Should the court continue this "shocking doctrine," said Black, it will wind up as "a day-today constitutional convention...