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...About to be banned in Boston. 5. A story of a German army chaplain in World...
Father Robert Spahn, Roman Catholic chaplain for Iowa State Teachers College, pointed out that his church takes a strong stand against private interpretation of the Bible, and warned that a man may be deceived in thinking he is guided by providence. Christ himself, warned Father Spahn, was persecuted by "those who thought they were doing the will...
When he was a U.S. Army chaplain in World War II, John L. Peters watched teen-age G.I.s die in his arms. He saw other kinds of suffering too. He never forgot the hungry Filipinos who picked food from his regiment's garbage pails. Back in his job as professor of religion at Oklahoma City University, Methodist Peters read with profound attention how the misery that he had glimpsed in Asia was being exploited by Communism...
...Christmas 1945, in Manila. Father Hofstee was the Army chaplain who convinced several members of the Army show Yanksapoppin that they should go out and entertain "my lepers at Tala." We reluctantly agreed...
...German of obvious good will, author and clergyman Albrecht Goes (himself a chaplain in World War II) seems more at home with a podium under foot than a pen in hand. His "good German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...