Nast, Lenora Heilig

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Morgan Christian Council; Brotherhood Week; interfaith cooperation in meeting the social problems of the Depression; the first dialogue groups; television shows-"Pastor's Study" and "To Promote Good Will"; Commission for Christian Unity established in 1962; Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (Unity Commission); problems of joint worship; future of ecumenism, search for leadership; uses of the media in the future.

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The establishment of the Commission for Christian Unity in 1962 and the people involved; Lawrence Cardinal Shehan at Vatican Council 11; comparative moves toward Christian unity in Germany, Austria, and Italy; reasons for move toward ecumenism in the 1960s.

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Origins, current composition and activities of ICMB; the Open Housing Bill; Project Equality (unemployment); the Madison Square Housing Project; Ecumedia; City-Suburban Tensions Forum; Community Corrections Houses; comparison of support received from blacks and Jews; differing functions and capabilities of the Council of Churches.

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Current efforts to set up a teleministry; causes for modern move to ecumenism; potential for Jewish-Christian dialogue; positive and also dangerous results to be expected from interfaith activities; influence of Oriental religions; effect of the media on interfaith understanding.

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Leonora Nast was a Ph.D. student at St. Mary's Seminary and University of Theology in Baltimore. In this interview, she discusses her doctoral dissertation, "The Role of the Clergy in Jewish-Christian Relations in Baltimore from 1945 to 1975", and the interview tapes she made while writing it, which she then donated to the Maryland Historical Society.

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Priests, rabbis, and ministers who worked with him on civil rights and the Gwynn Oak demonstrations in 1963; pessimism on black unemployment in Baltimore and the influence of the media; the importance of strong leadership.

Summary The work of the Associated Catholic Charities; the successful cooperation in 1969 with the United Fund of Central Maryland and further activities by the Catholics; the Associated Jewish Charities; the Community Chest and Red Cross; the work of the Interfaith Committee on Social Welfare; the Maryland Food Committee; "Kids in Need"; the Center for Metropolitan Research and Planning at the Johns Hopkins University; the St. Ambrose Housing Association community; interfaith meetings on criminal...

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Purpose, membership and activities of the brotherhood; potential leadership; effect of economic conditions; latent period of the 1970s for inter faith activities.

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The Quakers' impartiality in worldwide social services to all people; the 1970s as a period of withdrawal from intense interfaith activity; the comparative importance of laity and clergy.

Summary His participation in the Clergy Brotherhood of Baltimore; the Baltimore County Commission on Human Relations after the Gwynn Park demonstrations; "To Promote Good Will" television program; open housing demonstration at the War Memorial; memorial programs at Loyola College and Hopkins Place after the assassinations of Jewish athletes at Munich in 1972; the Interfaith baseball game; the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Baltimore; personal background; support of interfaith activities by the...