Assembly Picketed By Czech Immigrants
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) EVANSTON (Illinois), August 29. • Pickets carrying banners proclaiming that Dr. Joseph Hromadka, the Czech theologian, was "a traitor,” paraded outside the Assembly Hall when Dr. Hromadka addressed a meeting of the World Council of Churches here today.
The pickets said they were representatives of Czech immigrants in the United States. Dr. Hromadka said that the church must reject “any efforts to look for an absolute evil in any secular institution. It should avoid identification with “political, social and cultural divisions.”
Dr. Hromadka, dean of the Prague Theological School Faculty, who has denied he is a Communist, said the church looked "in a majestic freedom across the divisions of nations, races, political or social systems.” He said any attempt tb identify the church with any form of Government was a desire to use the church for earthly ends. Dr. Hromadka said a Godless world was much less dangerous than a "paganised Chrlst-less church.” No matter how idealistic or otherwise a society might be it was separate from the life of the church.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 11
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