Religion: Words & Works

¶ The first Jewish prayer book to be published in the Soviet Union since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution will be printed next month by a government press. It was financed by voluntary subscription of Jews in the U.S.S.R.

¶ Roman Catholics should not look upon their non-Catholic neighbors as "wayward rebels who have deliberately rejected Christ's teaching," warned Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing. "We cannot meet the problem of the 'other sheep' in the modern world with the unbending severity which was appropriate in the 13th century . . . We must act on the assumption that their heart is right and their intentions honest, unless we have proof positive to the contrary."

¶ Dr. Ralph Overman, nuclear scientist at Oak Ridge and an active Baptist layman, took issue with people who predict that thermonuclear weapons will wipe out civilization. At Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he accused Christians of using fear of nuclear weapons to "drive [people] into Christianity."