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...Anglican Slater, 63, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has spent 17 years in the Far East and is canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, the center is an old dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars...
Bachelor's Theology? The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting in Milwaukee, also heard some strong words on the subject from Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr., of the diocese of Olympia, Wash., who will take up his new duties next month as executive officer of the worldwide Anglican Communion in London (TIME, May 4). Said he: Roman Catholic doctrine on birth control, i.e., that continence, either total or during fertile periods, is the only moral means of preventing conception, was "devised by bachelors on a faulty moral theology which glorifies the single state; it is not particularly...
Delaying Action? In Manhattan, the Rev. Truman B. Douglass, vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches, said that his church's Ryder Hospital in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico is experimenting with contraceptive pills. "This service to the cause of population control." he said, "is a positive expression of Christian compassion and humanitarian concern...
...Government, continued Douglass, cannot improve the health and economies of other countries "and at the same time disown all responsibility for the population problem which success on these fronts greatly accentuates." The Roman Catholic Church is "staging a desperate delaying action" in "a battle which it knows is already lost. It knows that millions of faithful Catholics disregard its prohibitions in the practice of contraception, and do this with a clear conscience...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...