Episcopal Press and News
World Church - In Brief
Diocesan Press Service. December 1, 1968 [71-11]
ECUMENICALLY SPEAKING
The Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches has received a $25, 000 grant from the World Bank to produce four programs on the need for the United States to aid under-developed nations. They will be broadcast in April, 1969.
The National Cathedral, Washington, D. C., recently received a pledge of $250,000 for its College of Church Musicians. The funds will be used to establish the Norman Gertenfeld Chair of Hebrew Music.
An order of medical missionaries has become the first Roman Catholic religious community to become formally affiliated with the National Council of Churches division of overseas ministries. The Medical Mission Sisters of Philadelphia were accepted as an affiliated agency at the triennial meeting of the D.0.M. board.
Dr. Arthur Fleming, president of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., told students recently that student-militants "can and should go further than they have." He said the gap between the ideal of individual worth and dignity and reality has created student unrest. Fleming is also president of the National Council of Churches.
A woman minister of the United Church of Canada has been assigned to serve the Anglican community of Lac St. Jean, Quebec. The Rev. Phyllis Smyth will be the minister of a United Church and Anglican congregations which have shared the same building for 20 years.
OVERSEAS
Roman Catholic young people were granted full and equal rights at a pastoral synod meeting held by the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Eighteen young people served as delegates from the English-speaking deaneries of the Diocese.
Two Episcopal Church missionaries have been honored by the Japanese government. They are Karl E. Branstad, St. Paul's University (Rikkyo), who received the Fourth Class Order of the Sacred Treasure, and Gertrude Summers, Heian Women's College, who received the Fifth Class Order of the same award.
A Catholic priest and a twelve-man expedition force are the objects of a search in the Brazilian jungle where it is feared they may have been massacred by Indians of the Atroari tribe. The last contact with the party was late in October when it reported by radio that the tribesmen were becoming hostile.
The Most Rev. George Appleton, of Perth, Australia, has been named Archbishop in Jerusalem. He will succeed the Most Rev. Angus Campbell MacInnes, who retired November 30 after 40 years as the Jerusalem archbishop.
The Diocese of Madagascar, made up of an island four and a half times the size of England, is to be divided into three Dioceses early in 1969. The division of the Diocese is being made with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Deaconess Thelma Tomlinson has been appointed a chaplain of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. She previously served on the staff of a Liverpool parish church.
AT HOME
The religious representation among members of the 90th Congress will be about the same as before. Episcopalians will number 67, fourteen in the Senate and 53 in the House of Representatives.
The Rev. Robert North, 26-year-old rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, of St. Paul, Minn., has been elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives. It was his first try at political office.
The Rev. Thomas Gibbs, administrative assistant to the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, Executive Council's Deputy for Program, has resigned from his post, effective January 31, to return to the Virgin Islands. Father Gibbs has been with Executive Council since 1963 and been an assistant to Bishop Bayne since early in 1968. He will become administrative assistant to the Bishop of the Virgin Islands.
Associated Parishes, Inc., has issued a new brochure "Music for the Liturgy of the Lord's Supper, " intended for use with the Trial Liturgy. The booklet was written by Richard Forrest Woods, lecturer in Church Music at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Tex.
The Rt. Rev. Walter M. Higley, Bishop of Central New York, has announced that he will retire effective February 1, 1969. He will be succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole, Bishop Coadjutor.
The Rt. Rev. C. Edward Crowther, former Anglican Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, deported in 1967 by the government of South Africa, was a recent guest on the "Today" Show (NBC). He is the author of a new book "Where Religion Gets Lost in Church," published by Morehouse-Barlow.