Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But those of us who are in the company of the doomed wish that average Romanists knew where their church stands ... If they did, we suspect that liberty-loving American Catholics would force a genuine revision of policy or turn Protestant in droves . . .
Protestant churchgoers were asked by Gallup pollsters: Do you think it would or would not be a good thing for all Protestant churches in the United States to combine into one church? Last week Protestant leaders had a chance to measure the rank & file's enthusiasm for their slow...
From the Vatican last month came a strongly worded warning to Roman Catholics: they must not participate in religious conferences, prayers or worship with non-Catholics, without special permission from Rome. As the Protestant world prepared for this summer's great conference of 140-odd church groups in Amsterdam...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
Ellin Berlin, an R.C. who married a Russian Jewish songwriter named Irving Berlin and made a go of it, knows that those who marry out of their faith are not always so lucky. In Lace Curtain, her second novel, Veronica goes through a young girl's social hell before...