Word: protestante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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College-graduate drinkers in the U.S. vastly outnumber those whose formal education has stopped at the grade-school level (80% to 53%), and there are more well-to-do drinkers than poor: it takes money to drink. The average drinker is more likely to be a Roman Catholic than a...
Unchallenged Principle. Even in an age when Catholic theologians are willing to challenge almost every other established doctrine or discipline, no one has yet challenged the principle that private confessions should be secret. Under church law, a priest may be automatically excommunicated if he divulges any information told him by...
Essential to Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and...
Ecumenism & English. Although a personal friend to clerics of many faiths, Spellman was, at best, a reluctant ecumenist. Nonetheless more than 100 Catholic bishops and almost 50 Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clerics were present at the cathedral. Among them was Archbishop lakovos, Orthodox primate of North and South America, who...
Excess of Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick...