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...funeral or marriage service but has seldom been seen worshipping in his own or any other church. Last week Dr. Steele indicated his present attitude toward worship in a press statement which set conservative Episcopalians on their ears. Instead of 40 days of fasting during Lent, declared this pastor, one Holy Week is plenty...
...editor of a Catholic paper called The Queen's Work, whose circulation he ran from 12,000 up to 83,000. Father Lord is also the nation's No. 1 Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor, Fashionable Sin, Christ Lives On, which have sold 3,500,000 copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed to ban from Hollywood...
...Fresno, Calif., registrations at the Fresno Evening High School boomed when Charles Woessner, accounting machine salesman and onetime Baptist pastor, announced two courses in "How To Fall in Love and Stay...
...Morristown for the year past, a ruddy-faced, 32-year-old Union Theological Seminary graduate named Richard A. Morford has been acting pastor of First Presbyterian Church, whose members proudly claim that George Washington once worshipped there. Presbyterian Morford went to First Church in 1931 as Minister of Christian Education, made himself popular with the young people. He made no bones of the fact that he is a Socialist. Year ago he helped bring Norman Thomas to Morristown, introduced that amiable onetime Presbyterian minister and Presidential candidate to his listeners. Abruptly last week Socialist Morford announced his resignation, declined...
...Palisade, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, members of a nondenominational Union Church last week dismissed their spectacular pastor, Rev. Vincent Godfrey Burns, 42, ostensibly for having called them "cutthroats, skunks, snobs, greedy aristocrats." Pastor Burns has an equally spectacular brother, Robert Elliott Burns, who fled from a Georgia work camp, wrote a book about it (I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang), three years ago persuaded Governor Moore of New Jersey not to send him back. Year ago, toward the close of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N.J., Preacher Vincent Burns leaped...