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> Elected Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Protestant Episcopal Church as President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (see col. 3).
Latest effort to formulate a practicable faith for a world in a flux is a brief (104-page) symposium called A Righteous Faith for a Just and Durable Peace. The pamphlet was issued by the commission picked by the Federal Council of Churches to study the basis of a Just...
> Methodists and Baptists, the two largest Protestant denominations, have lagged badly in filling their quotas. This is partly because Army educational standards for chaplains are very high (many Baptist and Methodist ministers have not had four years of college plus three of seminary training) and in the case of the...
...leading Protestant denominations (membership: 23,120,929-about two-thirds of U.S. Protestantism) collected $350,807,172 in fiscal 1942-an increase of 36% from the low of 1934 but a decrease of 30% from the peak year of 1927. Per capita giving has dropped from $23.03 to $15.17 in 18 years-although automobile registration has doubled to 28,804,793, movie box-office intake has doubled to a billion dollars, consumption of soft drinks has risen from $1.28 to $2.71 per capita...
Opponents of the birth control referendum seem to be of the opinion that the Catholic Church is opposed to birth control. Actually, the controversy involves not the principle, but the method permitted. To quote the editors of Fortune. "The means permitted by the Catholic Church are based upon what Pope...