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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Coptic and Orthodox council observers.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CEPO-31690 COPTIC AND ORTHODOX COUNCIL OBSERVERS VATICAN CITY -- Two delegate-observers at the Vatican Council’s third session await the opening of a general congregation in St. Peter’s Basilica. They are Dr. Teodoro Moriones, a professor, representing the Patriarchate of Alexandria of the Coptic Church of Egypt (left); and Archimandrite Andre Scrima of Paris, representative of the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey. The Egyptian Coptic Church also had observers at the Council last year, while the Ecumenical Patriarchate sent delegates for the first time at the current session. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-10B-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Moriones, Teodoro., Coptic Church--Clergy., Scrima, André, 1925-2000., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Catholic Church--Relations--Coptic Church., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Relations--Catholic Church., Coptic Church--Relations--Catholic Church.
Topics:
Councils and synods, Ecumenical., Popes., Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356604
Title:
Non-Catholic observers to ecumenical council.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Moriones, Teodoro., Coptic Church--Clergy., Scrima, André, 1925-2000., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Catholic Church--Relations--Coptic Church., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Relations--Catholic Church., Coptic Church--Relations--Catholic Church.
Topics:
Councils and synods, Ecumenical., Popes., Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356424
Title:
Pope takes relic of saint to council.
Description:
Clipping from The New York Times that illustrates this event with a similar, but different photograph, rather than the photo file image.
Creator:
New York Times Company. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece., Processions, Religious--Vatican City.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349391
Title:
Head of St. Andrew will be sent to Greece.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Biserica Ortodoxă Română--Clergy., Scrima, André, 1925-2000., Constantinople (Ecumenical patriarchate), Holy Cross Theological School (Brookline, Mass.)--Faculty., Panteleimon Rodopoulos, Very Reverend., Dante, Enrico., Willebrands, Johannes., Catholic Church. Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam., Catholic Church--Bishops., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Clergy., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349350
Title:
Gesture of friendship by the Pope.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece., Processions, Religious--Vatican City.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349245
Title:
St. Andrew relic returned to Orthodox.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31630 ST. ANDREW RELIC RETURNED TO ORTHODOX VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI sits before altar holding a gold reliquary containing the famed relic of St. Andrew the Apostle during ceremonies in St. Peter's Basilica before its return to the Orthodox Church in Greece. On either side of the pontiff are some of the 2, 300 Fathers of the Vatican Council who participated in the services. Flown to Greece, the relic -- skull of the Apostle -- was escorted by a delegation headed by Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. On its arrival, the relic and its escorts received a warm welcome from Metropolitan Constantine of Patras, in whose diocesan cathedral the skull will be enshrined. After some 500 years in the St. Peter's grottoes, the relic was returned to the Orthodox by the Pope as a gesture of "brotherly love." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-9E-64-NAB)
Creator:
ANSA (Organization) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Bishops., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano), Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349129
Title:
Council fathers venerate St. Andrew relic.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31617 COUNCIL FATHERS VENERATE ST. ANDREW RELIC VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI carries a famed relic of St. Andrew in a gold reliquary during a procession in St. Peter's Basilica. The procession was followed by a Mass attended by the Fathers of the Vatican Council and celebrated by Paolo Cardinal Marella, archpriest of the basilica. The Council Fathers' veneration of the relic -- skull of Apostle -- was a prelude to its return by the Pope to the Orthodox Church in Greece as a gesture of "brotherly love." The relic -- enshrined in St. Peter's for some 500 years -- was to leave Rome by air Sept. 26, escorted by a delegation headed by Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. It is being returned to the Orthodox Diocese of Patras, where St. Andrew was beheaded in 60 A.D. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-9D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece., Processions, Religious--Vatican City.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349126
Title:
Pope returns St. Andrew relic to Orthodox.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-31616 POPE RETURNS ST. ANDREW RELIC TO ORTHODOX VATICAN CITY -- Orthodox and Catholic prelates stand behind an altar on which rests a gold reliquary containing the famed relic of St. Andrew the Apostle being returned by Pope Paul VI to the Orthodox Church in Greece. The relic was venerated by the Fathers of the Vatican Council at a Mass and a procession in St. Peter's Basilica. Shown from left are Archimandrite Andre Scrima of Paris, a Romanian Orthodox priest under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul; the Very Rev. Panteleimon Rodopoulos, dean of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological School, Brookline, Mass.; Archbishop Enrico Dante, Papal Master of Ceremonies; and Bishop Jan Willebrands, secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. The two Orthodox prelates are delegate-observers from the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Vatican Councils third session. The relic -- skull of St. Andrew --is being sent to the Orthodox Diocese of Patras. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-9D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Biserica Ortodoxă Română--Clergy., Scrima, André, 1925-2000., Constantinople (Ecumenical patriarchate), Holy Cross Theological School (Brookline, Mass.)--Faculty., Panteleimon Rodopoulos, Very Reverend., Dante, Enrico., Willebrands, Johannes., Catholic Church. Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam., Catholic Church--Bishops., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Clergy., Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Reliquaries., Relics., Cultural property--Repatriation--Greece., Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--Greece.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349125

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