Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Episcopalians' General Theological Seminary in Manhattan) have stressed chaplain service to the sick. Four years ago, Texas Medical Center began training doctors in the minister's role on "the healing team," stressing the relation of religion to a patient's health. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen lectured to the medical students on the details of their faiths so that the future doctors might collaborate in aiding the spiritual as well as the mental and physical health of their patients. The following year a course was added for ministerial graduate students in which they study medicine, psychology, psychiatry...
...court, the Bembas had massive support. To plead their case, topflight Barrister Charles Russell, Q.C., carefully briefed by Catholic churchmen, had flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving...
...concerned that the trend to confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number of clergymen, like Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need...
What saves South Africa from dire prophecies is the fact that its black middle class-its African traders, lawyers, doctors, clergymen, nurses-are perhaps the most numerous on the continent. They have just enough personal stake to weaken (so far, at any rate) a strong black political movement...
Films for the Fuhrer. The July 20 plotters-a network of diplomats, politicians and clergymen, working with disillusioned generals and colonels-had paid dearly for their pains. As soon as the news went out that Hitler was alive, the Gestapo began its dragnet Operation Thunderstorm, which brought the number of Germans arrested that year to 33,000. Stauffenberg was shot, and every other man, woman and child by that name was ordered arrested. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose suicide by poison. At least 600 men were either guillotined or strangled by piano wire suspended from meat hooks, and their final...