Word: sockman
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...means unique among Protestant ministers. Every preacher who has listened to the confidences of his congregation has heard confessions. But few ministers have cared, or dared, to use the Roman Catholic Church term. Of the few are Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman and Reverend Thomas Guthrie Speers of Manhattan. Not so John Roach Straton. At his fellow Baptist, Harry Emerson Fosdick, he sneered: ". . . Rockefeller's pulpit puppet...