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In recent weeks, militant leftist students have been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism...
...Most Reverend and Right Honorable Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, is hardly used to such epithets as "traitor" and "betrayer of Protestantism." But the ecumenical-minded Archbishop, 63, accepted an unprecedented invitation from John Cardinal Heenan, 63, to speak at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral. Demonstrators from the conservative British Council of Protestant Christian Churches waited for Ramsey outside the cathedral, name-calling and waving placards that accused Ramsey of "Running to Rome." In the pulpit, His Grace was unwavering. "We are able now," he said, "with the authority of both our churches...
"This means that those who are concerned have to escalate the dimensions of protest." To that end, a group of antiwar Protestant theologians met in Chicago last week in the first stage of an attempt to work out a clear-cut theological approach to situations like Viet Nam. Such an...
G. B. Shaw's plays have taken his death badly. The scenes creak at the joints. The wit sputters more often than it fizzes. The characters seem alive from the neck up only. St. Joan has not been spared. In a conscientious but lethargic revival at Manhattan's...
Sir: In your article "How Secret the Confessional?" [Dec. 22], you seem to sidestep the problem of individual responsibility, which is the true issue. You say that clerics defend the inviolability of confession because it provides "an emotional outlet for disturbed persons." Murder also provides such an outlet. Do the...