Word: statements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney, S.J., both notably ignorant in the field of Catholic theology ... are teaching that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church...
...drop in ticket demand was explained by Athletic Association director W. Henry Johnson, who said, "The Harvard-Holy Cross game, more than any other game on our schedule, depends on the previous records of the teams for audience appeal." Johnson's statement has been borne out by the lack of student and general public enthusiasm...
...Unitarians (71,419 members) and Universalists (44,349 members), formal creeds have long been an abomination: in matters of faith, every-conscience-for itself is the accepted rule. But last week it seemed as if both churches were feeling the need of a statement of faith-even if it made a creed of creedlessness...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Nazi elements. This charge was, of course, leveled at the League by the opposition during the election campaign. It attracted a large number of the votes of the so-called "less implicated" Nazis, who were granted the ballot in this election, although they did not vote in 1945. Your statement that "a large group of Austrians decided that they would like to have some Nazis running their country" is ironic when you consider that leading members of the Austrian People's Party conducted negotiations last spring with leading ex-Nazis and offered them a very substantial number of parliamentary seats...