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Later scholarly, urbane Presbyterian Moderator Henry Sloane Coffin addressed the Episcopal Convention. Said he dryly: "Our Church is committed to the principle of visible Church unity and never has sought to be merely a sect of the Holy Catholic Church...
...Gumyoji, as in every Japanese prison, there was a Buddhist priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...
...minutes before. In a series of majority opinions, the U.S. Supreme Court redeemed itself from the obloquy which fell upon it last year after a decision written by Justice Stanley Reed, which prevailed in a 5-to-4 decision. Then the Court had upheld city ordinances denying the obstreperous sect called Jehovah's Witnesses the right to peddle their literature without a license. The Reed decision held that free speech, free press, and freedom of religion may, despite the Bill of Rights, be limited-"to times, places and methods . . . not at odds with the preservation of peace and good...
Most striking example shown last week was the Carreta de la Muerte-a "death cart" (see cut) in which a grinning skeleton with elongated wooden limbs sits upright with a bow & arrow poised for shooting. The cart was used in the Holy Week ceremonies of the Penitentes, a sect of zealots who flagellated and crucified themselves and each other, and which, although modified in ceremony, still exists in remote regions of New Mexico...
...decisions appeared to reverse a series of past rulings in roughly similar cases involving other members of the sect in various states. Both were unanimous although newly-appointed Justice Wiley B. Rutledge did not participate