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...Seminary President James McCord, chairman of the United Presbyterian COCU delegation, scornfully called it "an aberration that will have to be corrected." COCU Godfather Blake, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, charged that the vote represented a "misunderstanding of what COCU is all about." Added the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Crow Jr., COCU General Secretary: "I still don't think it represents the United Presbyterian Church...
Despite the apparent anti-ecumenical bias of the action, the vote to withdraw from COCU-if it is not reversed at next year's meeting-could actually improve Presbyterian ecumenism in some other directions. The Rev. Matthew Welde of Norristown, Pa., who led the Philadelphia anti-COCU move, says that he and his supporters oppose "structural union" but would like to see wider "spiritual unity" in ecumenical contacts-including those with groups not now included in the COCU plan, such as the Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists and Pentecostals. Also, the Presbyterians' plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church...
...REV.) WILLIAM J. BARNEY...
...good old days. The 15th anniversary of McCarthy's death was marked last week with a Requiem High Mass in Milwaukee followed by a graveside service and a luncheon in Appleton the next day. About 40 members of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation gathered to hear the Rev. Raymond Vint avow that "history will unerringly find him his proper place in the estimation of the nation he served...
...Look at the Fifties comprised an entrancing hodgepodge of tap dancing, singing, recitations and thunderous chorales providing running commentary on, of all things, an actual basketball game. It won rave reviews, packed the church for three weekends recently-then vanished. So it goes with the work of the Rev. Al Carmines, who wrote the show and is fast emerging as one of New York's finest composers of theater music. Because Carmines is also the practicing minister at Judson Memorial, most of his productions have to be sandwiched between other functions at the church...