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For millions of committed Christians, the late '80s brought agonizing disillusionment. One after another, some of the country's most prominent Protestant televangelists revealed themselves as pious pretenders, driven by lust or avarice or unsaintly ego. Perhaps most distressing was the ammunition the scandals gave to the skeptical and scornful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feuds: God and Money Part 9 | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

An 18-month effort to bring stability to Northern Ireland ended abruptly last week as talks among political leaders of the province's majority Protestant and minority Catholic communities collapsed. Negotiations had barely begun when the leaders fell out over procedural issues, such as where meetings would be held and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Breakdown in Communications | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

The final straw came when the Protestant unionists vowed to walk out unless British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Brooke, who initiated the peace plan, canceled a July 16 meeting with the Irish Foreign Minister that is part of a 1985 accord giving Dublin a role in running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Breakdown in Communications | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

The tenet that sex should be confined to marriage is an age-old one inherited from Judaism. It is under assault because of the pressures of modern reality: the sexual precocity of young Americans, the large number of divorced or unmarried adults who have active sex lives, and the growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does God Really Think About Sex? | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

That same resolution opened an even more ancient debate between Protestants and Catholics over the colonization of the Americas. For Catholics like historian James Muldoon, the (Protestant) attack on Columbus and on the subsequent missionary work of the (Catholic) church in the Americas is little more than a resurrection, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hail Columbus, Dead White Male | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

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