The Vineyard

These items made religious news last week:

IN BUDAPEST, Bishop Imre Revesz, head of the Hungarian Calvinist Church, advised Calvinist ministers to accept Hungary's Communist regime; he expressed "anxiety" because "most of my fellow ministers do not yet know or do not want to recognize that the old order of society and economy . . . will not come back."

IN CHICAGO, Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church."

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