Word: bromley
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High Hopes. Last month Harry Truman officially continued Personal Representative Taylor's mission. Seven major denominations in annual conventions or assemblies promptly put themselves on record for Taylor's recall. Finally, last week, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, led a ten-man interdenominational delegation to the White House and presented the President with a document embodying the resolutions, as well as 30-odd more from other conferences and denominational groups...
...BROMLEY OXNAM...
Three weeks ago Princeton Theological Seminary's John A. Mackay spoke his concern over Catholic clericalism and its "vilification" of Protestant leaders (TIME, March 25). Last week New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, chose the Catholic stronghold of Boston to set forth the Protestant grievance in spade-calling terms. Excerpts...
Editorially, the Pilot, official organ of the Boston archdiocese, wrung its hands: "G. Bromley Oxnam has to live with himself. Undoubtedly he says prayers before he retires at night. In these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his responsibility for the confusion he spread in that . . . talk, for the pain he inflicted on all whose only trust is the Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship...
...Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, liberal, plain-spoken president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches...