Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church unity (for years the object of some of the best Protestant thought, hope and effort) advanced one cautious step last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches...
So said doughty, blue-eyed Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, when he visited the U.S. in 1935. Last week the 81-year-old Cardinal addressed Americans in a different fashion. He found it "exceedingly hard to be patient," he complained, when he...
...over the world. He taught there for 26 years before becoming a bishop in 1915. In 1928 he was appointed to St. Patrick's see, got his red hat in 1929. A sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity...
The Robertsons never called themselves "planters." They are dirt farmers, with no pillared porticoes. They have been Democrats since Jefferson's first term. They have been Baptists since before the Great Revival in 1800. In a hot and sensuous land, they are the fierce inheritors of "the direct Protestant...
Among the groups affected in the District of Columbia: the National Cathedral (Episcopal), the Washington Federation of Churches (interdenominational Protestant), a Christian Science church, numerous Roman Catholic properties, including those of 13 Catholic orders. Here the issue is not merely one of taxing church-owned properties that are used for...