Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360512
Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360511
Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360510
Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360509
Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360508
Title:
Sterling W. Brown.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., National Conference of Christians and Jews--Presidents., Brown, Sterling W.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360507
Title:
Bishop Sherrill taking oath.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BISHOP SHERRILL TAKING OATH #5012 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With his right hand upon an open book of Common Prayer that is borne by the Very Rev. John Wallace Suter, dean of Washington Cathedral, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill reads the oath during his installation as the 20th Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The impressive ecclesiastical ritual was conducted before an assemblage of clergy and laity that filled the magnificent edifice. To the left of Bishop Sherrill is the retiring Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker. At extreme left of picture is former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, president of the Protestant Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (VF-WASH-BS-1C-47-A-E)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Suter, John Wallace, Jr., 1890-1977., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church--Liturgy., Washington Cathedral., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Tucker, Henry St. George, 1874-1959., Roberts, Owen J. (Owen Josephus), 1875-1955.
Topics:
Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Consecration of bishops--Episcopal Church.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360500
Title:
The Cushing story
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31209 THE CUSHING STORY: MISSIONS, ECUMENISM (Second of a Series of 2 Photo Layouts) BOSTON -- Foreign missions and ecumenism distinguish the 25-year episcopate of Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. The “man of many hats” marked the 25th anniversary of his consecration on June 29. At top left, his mission zeal is epitomized by yet another hat, a “lluchu” given to him by Indians in Bolivia. Cardinal Cushing has been honored by two Popes for his foundation and maintenance of the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle for Latin America. One hundred U.S. priests now serve areas long hit by a shortage of clergy, and the prelate, famed as a fund-raiser, supports their work at a cost of $1 million annually. At upper right, he is shown as he was embraced in 1947 by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy -- the patriarch was then Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Cardinal Cushing’s relations with the Orthodox and Protestants have spurred the ecumenical movement in the U.S.; in recent years he has preached or lectured before many non-Catholic groups. Below, left, he is shown with his old friend, Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, as they participated in an unprecedented Catholic-Protestant Colloquium at Harvard. With them are Dr. Nathan Pusey, Harvard’s president, and Dr. Samuel H. Miller, Dean of Harvard Divinity School and chairman of the Massachusetts Council of Churches’ Committee on Christian Unity. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FRE-6D-NY-64-W)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bea, Augustin, 1881-1968., Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970., Athēnagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1886-1972., Pusey, Nathan M. (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001., Miller, Samuel Howard, 1900-1968., Catholic Church--Bishops., Orthodox Eastern Church--Bishops., Harvard Divinity School--Faculty., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodox Eastern Church., Orthodox Eastern Church--Relations--Catholic Church., Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle (Boston, Mass.)
Topics:
Bishops--Massachusetts--Boston., Ecumenical movement--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Massachusetts--Cambridge., Missions--Bolivia., Ethnic costume--Bolivia.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350158

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