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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Showing his opposition.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45944 SHOWING HIS OPPOSITION CHICAGO -- A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars wears a badge showing his opposition to amnesty on his hat during the VFW’s convention in Chicago. Despite President Ford’s speech to the veterans group, in which he said he wanted a “second chance” for young men who fled the country to escape induction and those in legal trouble for resistance and desertion during the Vietnam war, the VFW remains on record as opposed to amnesty. Top religious leaders, however, have warmly welcomed President Ford’s call for “leniency.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CHI-8D-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States--Congresses.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Veterans--Societies, etc., Draft resisters--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Veterans--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361244
Title:
Urges leniency for draft resisters.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45939 URGES LENIENCY FOR DRAFT RESISTERS CHICAGO -- President Gerald Ford, addressing the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, says he is “on the side of leniency” in dealing with Vietnam War draft resisters and deserters. “In my judgement, these young Americans should have a second chance to contribute their fair share to the rebuilding of peace among ourselves and with all nations,” the new Commander in Chief said in a surprise statement to the VFW. But Mr. Ford did not support unconditional amnesty. He said those accused of what is “loosely described as desertion and draft dodging” should “work their way back” into citizenship. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CHI-8D-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States--Congresses.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Veterans--Societies, etc., Speeches, addresses, etc., Presidents--United States., Draft resisters--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Veterans--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361243
Title:
Rule women's ordinations invalid.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45918 RULE WOMEN’S ORDINATIONS INVALID CHICAGO -- Presiding Bishop John M. Allin (left) of the Episcopal Church conducts a Communion service during the emergency session of the denomination’s House of Bishops in Chicago, called to consider the recent ordinations of 11 women deacons to the priesthood. At right are two of the women ordained on July 29 in Philadelphia: the Revs. Allison Cheek of Virginia (standing) and Jeanette Piccard of Minnesota. By a large majority of those present and voting, the bishops ruled that the Philadelphia ceremony did not meet the necessary conditions for the ordination of deacons to the priesthood and declared the ordinations “not valid.” They referred the entire matter, including any disciplinary action to be taken against the participants, to the Church’s Fall 1976 General Convention. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CHI-8C-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Allin, John Maury., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church--Liturgy., Episcopal Church. House of Bishops--Congresses., Episcopal Church. House of Bishops., Cheek, Alison M., Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981., Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Lord's Supper., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Ordination of women--Episcopal Church., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Women clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361237
Title:
"A responsible rebel."
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-45981 ‘A RESPONSIBLE REBEL’ CHICAGO -- What’s the daughter of a leading Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod “conservative” doing on the Board of Directors of an organization of Missouri Synod “moderates?” Edith Rehbein, 31-year-old daughter of Dr. Martin Scharlemann, describes herself as “a responsible rebel -- deeply rooted in a Lutheran heritage and repulsed by the current Synodical administration’s contamination of that heritage.” Strong words for a woman whose father became a symbol of support for Synodical President Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus during three months of service as acting president of Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis earlier this year. But shortly after her election to the Board of Directors of the Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (ELIM) at its national assembly in Chicago, Mrs. Rehbein said of her father, “I only hope that he will remember his own early 30s.” Ironically, Dr. Scharlemann was considered a leading Synodical “moderate” in the early 1960s. He came under fire at the Missouri Synod’s 1962 convention for having written articles saying that the Bible writers were men who wrote from where they were as people of their day and objecting to calling the Bible inerrant. At the convention, he promised to withdraw the essays. Mrs. Rehbein is an English professor at Middlesex (N.J.) County College and is married to the Rev. David M. Rehbein of Somerset, N.J. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-CHI-9A-74-DS)
Creator:
Evangelical Lutherans in Mission. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rehbein, Edith Scharlemann., Evangelical Lutherans in Mission., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Doctrine., Evangelical Lutherans in Mission--Congresses.
Topics:
Women in church work--Illinois--Chicago., Dissenters, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Children of clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361230
Title:
Daughter of LCMS 'conservative' is active in 'moderate' group.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rehbein, Edith Scharlemann., Evangelical Lutherans in Mission., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Doctrine., Evangelical Lutherans in Mission--Congresses.
Topics:
Women in church work--Illinois--Chicago., Dissenters, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Children of clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361145
Title:
Showing his opposition.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States--Congresses.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Veterans--Societies, etc., Draft resisters--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Veterans--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361113
Title:
Urges leniency for draft resisters.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States., Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States--Congresses.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Veterans--Societies, etc., Speeches, addresses, etc., Presidents--United States., Draft resisters--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Veterans--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361099
Title:
Rule women's ordinations invalid.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Allin, John Maury., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church--Liturgy., Episcopal Church. House of Bishops--Congresses., Episcopal Church. House of Bishops., Cheek, Alison M., Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981., Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Lord's Supper., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Ordination of women--Episcopal Church., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Women clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361082
Title:
Temperance movement publishes new magazine.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT PUBLISHES NEW MAGAZINE #S-4852 CHICAGO -- Herbert H. Parish (left), administrative director of the National Temperance Movement, distributes copies of the first issue of The National Temperance Digest, at the organization’s first biennial convention here. Officers of the movement examining the magazine are (left to right): the Rev. H.B. Cross of Nashville, Tenn., vice president; Miss Ethel Hubler of Los Angeles, member of the executive committee; the Rev. Wayne W. Womer of West Hartford, Conn., president, and Dr. Walter McKenzie of Dallas, Tex., member of the executive committee. Mr. Womer urged the convention not to be “isolationist” but to seek cooperation with other temperance groups. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PS-CHI-BS-11D-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Temperance Movement, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), National Temperance Movement, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)--Publishing., National Temperance Movement, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)--Congresses., Parish, Herbert H., Cross, H.B., Hubler, Ethel., Womer, Wayne W., McKenzie, Walter.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Temperance--United States., Temperance--Congresses., Temperance--Societies, etc., Periodicals.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360572
Title:
Delivers lecture series on Christian unity.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: DELIVERS LECTURE SERIES ON CHRISTIAN UNITY #S-4813 CHICAGO -- The Rt. Rev. Angus Dun (center), Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., discusses program details with two educators at the start of the four-day William Henry Hoover Lectureship on Christian Unity held here at the University of Chicago. Bishop Dun delivered a series of five lectures on the them, “The Struggle of the Churches to be the Church.” Left, Dr. E.C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago; right, Dr. W.B. Blakemore, dean of the Disciples Divinity House of the University, which sponsored the lectureship made possible by a $50,000 fund left by the famous manufacturer of vacuum cleaners. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PS-CHI-BS-11B-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago., Dun, Angus, 1892-1971., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Colwell, Ernest Cadman, 1901-1974., University of Chicago--Presidents., Blakemore, Wm. Barnett (William Barnett), 1912-1975.
Topics:
Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Lectures and lecturing--Illinois--Chicago., Speeches, addresses, etc., Christian union.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360565
Title:
Industrial chaplain offers jobs---and the Gospel.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: INDUSTRIAL CHAPLAIN OFFERS JOBS---AND THE GOSPEL #S-4711 CHICAGO -- Applicants for jobs at the Derby Laundry here are interviewed by Chaplain E.D. Roberts (right), who combines his spiritual duties with the work of a personnel manager. Signs posted in his office introduce prospective employees to the firm’s interest in religion for its workers. “We have an opportunity to minister to the spiritual as well as the economic needs of our associates,” explains the Chaplain. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (KEY-NY-BS-10E6-W)
Creator:
Press Syndicate Photo (Chicago, Ill.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Derby Laundry (Chicago, Ill.), Derby Laundry (Chicago, Ill.)--Chaplains., Roberts, E.D.
Topics:
Chaplains--Illinois--Chicago., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Laundry industry--Employees., Laundry industry--Employees--Religious life., Laundry industry--Illinois--Chicago., Personnel management--Illinois--Chicago., Employee selection--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360556
Title:
Midday prayer for workers.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #S-4710 MIDDAY PRAYER FOR WORKERS CHICAGO -- Sam Deahl (standing), owner of the Derby Laundry, leads the opening prayer of a weekly gospel service which his firm sponsors for its employees. Lunch hour each Wednesday is extended to include a non-sectarian religious meeting which attracts many of the white and colored workers. Employees also have the benefit of a company chaplain who doubles as personnel manager. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (KEY-NY-BS-10E6-W-F)
Creator:
Press Syndicate Photo (Chicago, Ill.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Derby Laundry (Chicago, Ill.), Deahl, Sam.
Topics:
Prayer--Illinois--Chicago., Prayer meetings--Illinois--Chicago., Laundry industry--Employees., Laundry industry--Employees--Religious life., Laundry industry--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360555
Title:
Processional at service honoring Cardinal Stritch.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #C-4841 PROCESSIONAL AT SERVICE HONORING CARDINAL STRITCH CHICAGO -- A processional composed of Catholic clergy, including members of the hierarchy, winds its way into Holy Name Cathedral here at the start of services honoring Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago and retiring chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. More than 2,500 priests and 100 bishops and archbishops, including Edward Cardinal McGuigan of Toronto, Canada, who with Cardinal Stritch were elevated at the Consistory last February, were present. The Vatican was represented by the Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, apostolic delegate to the United States. Cardinal Stritch was appointed to the bishopric of Toledo, O., Nov. 30, 1941. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PS-CHI-BS-11C6-C)
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cathedral of the Holy Name (Chicago, Ill.), Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church--Buildings.
Topics:
Consecration of bishops--Anniversaries, etc., Processions, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Church buildings--Illinois--Chicago., Church architecture--Illinois--Chicago., Architecture, Gothic--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360527
Title:
Cardinal Stritch addresses seminar on UN.
Description:
Merged to photo file C-4672.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958., Catholic Church--Bishops., Mundelein College., United Nations. Charter.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Speeches, addresses, etc., Internationalism--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360516
Title:
Cardinal Stritch addresses seminar on UN.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CARDINAL STRITCH ADDRESSES SEMINAR ON UN #C-4672 CHICAGO -- Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago, delivers the keynote address in Mundelein College auditorium here to open a five-day Institute for Study of the United Nations Charter. The conference was sponsored by Mundelein College to acquaint students and the general public with the aims and organization of the United Nations and to promote the cause of world peace. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PS-CHI-BS-10D-6-C)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958., Catholic Church--Bishops., Mundelein College., United Nations. Charter.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Speeches, addresses, etc., Internationalism--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360515
Title:
Cardinal Stritch.
Description:
Contents merged with photo file 4846.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cathedral of the Holy Name (Chicago, Ill.), Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Bishops., Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958.
Topics:
Consecration of bishops--Anniversaries, etc., Processions, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360476
Title:
Cardinal Stritch jubilee.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cathedral of the Holy Name (Chicago, Ill.), Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Consecration of bishops--Anniversaries, etc., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360475
Title:
Cardinal James McGuigan of Toronto.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cathedral of the Holy Name (Chicago, Ill.), Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Bishops., McGuigan, James Charles, 1894-1974.
Topics:
Consecration of bishops--Anniversaries, etc., Processions, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360474
Title:
Cardinal Edward Mooney of Detroit at Cardinal Stritch's jubilee.
Creator:
Newman, Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cathedral of the Holy Name (Chicago, Ill.), Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus, 1887-1958--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Bishops., Mooney, Edward, 1882-1958.
Topics:
Consecration of bishops--Anniversaries, etc., Processions, Religious--Illinois--Chicago., Bishops--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360473
Title:
Hear Bishop Dun urge Christian unity.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: HEAR BISHOP DUN URGE CHRISTIAN UNITY #4814 CHICAGO -- A sizeable crowd fills Mandel Hall, University of Chicago auditorium, to hear the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., inaugurate the William Henry Hoover Lectureship on Christian Unit. He delivered five lectures on four successive days, emphasized the need for church union among all Christian faiths. The lectureship was sponsored by the Disciples Divinity House and was made possible by a grant of $50,000 bequeathed by the late William Henry Hoover, Ohio vacuum cleaner manufacturer. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PS-CHI-BS-11B-6-A-E)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago., Dun, Angus, 1892-1971., Episcopal Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Bishops--Illinois--Chicago., Lectures and lecturing--Illinois--Chicago., Speeches, addresses, etc., Christian union.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360448

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