Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses and corrupt doctrines of the Middle Ages." Asked if many parishioners had been converted to Roman Catholicism as a result of the ousted priest's activities, Dr. Stockwood snorted, "Perverted, not converted...
The letters columns of Britain's newspapers erupted in praise and censure of the bishop. Romanesque Anglican Harris packed off to a small hotel in Devon, "desolate" at his dismissal. He could not and would not become a Roman Catholic, he said. But he still had a puckish message...
"It wasn't an easy meeting, but it was a good one," said General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches, as the council's tenth annual Central Committee meeting in Rhodes adjourned last week. The meeting was good for its air-clearing...
Repercussions of the Rhodes meeting were felt even in Rome, where some newspapers printed exaggerated accounts of an informal gathering between Orthodox delegates and the Roman Catholic observers in the early stages of the meeting. Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which would...
...last week Pope John himself, on the occasion of an ad-lib address to some 10,000 pilgrims and tourists, just happened to draw attention to a major doctrinal difference that ranges Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy on one side and Protestantism on the other. Extolling the role of the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholic theology, the Pontiff, while not mentioning Protestants by name, lamented the "many who also hold to the name of Christians who have forgotten the Madonna and left her outside their door...