Word: clericalisme
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Replenishment of European Bibles destroyed by the hand of war, and by the anti-clericalism of the totalitarian states has emerged as the foremost immediate problem of the Society. Early last year Dr. Martin Niemoeller was furnished with 1000 Bibles to give to German pastors who had been forced to...
That "handpicked" remark, retorted Dr. Shipler, was untrue. Furthermore, he found the Archbishop's whole statement "ill-tempered." Said Dr. Shipler: "If the Roman Catholic Church in America wishes to be free from criticism, let it become only a church and not a political state. . . . Increasing numbers are determined...
War & Wedding Rings. Meanwhile, Observer Root finds both Catholics and Protestants deeply concerned at another trend in postwar Italy-anti-clericalism:
I am pretty well briefed in those twin evils with which Protestantism currently is striving; namely, secularism and denominationalism. There is a third evil. . . clericalism. The Protestant enterprise in the United States is preacher-ridden. What Protestantism speaks, the language, the voice and the meaning are clerical. What Protestantism does...
I believe that Mr. Taft has no greater prophetic opportunity than to begin the righting of this unbalance-righting it, not for the laymen's sake, but for the sake of Protestantism. Clericalism is a perversion of the Protestant idea. . . . The Catholic hierarchy can put the Roman Catholic Church...