For the World Council of Churches is roughly an ecclesiastical ... met in a world unused to organized religion. A memorandum prepared by General Secretary Visser ‘t Hooft and Bishop Lesslie ...

But, in what John XXIII took to be a gesture of better relations between Rome and the Communist world ... religious rites. In careful Latin, he explained to the bishops the purpose of the council.

The World Methodist Council is composed of remarkably talented ... who are increasingly disconnected from traditional forms of religious expression. As society becomes more secularized, churches ...