Word: protestante
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Even in America, land of religious toleration, this mixture has at time resulted in violence. In 1843, after the Pennsylvania legislature excused Catholics from the Protestant prayers in school, angry Protestants rioted for three days, leaving 13 people dead. When conflict can result from two faiths with so much in...
It is something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the...
Marius also defended himself by citing a 1974book he wrote about the Protestant reformer MartinLuther. In the book, he castigated scholars forfailing to acknowledge Luther's anti-Semitism.
Forgive me for being underwhelmed by this astonishingly belated act of contrition from the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Like most African Americans, I would have been more impressed if the revelation had come a generation ago, when prominent Southern Baptists like George Wallace were standing in the schoolhouse door...
It made some sense that Elie Wiesel chose Venice as the place to bring together 30 interesting adolescents ("Tomorrow's Leaders") from various battlefields around the world (Bosnia, several African countries, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, some of the more violent neighborhoods of American cities) to talk about their lives...