Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholics, the second to Catholics, and the third to Protestants. The first proposition is that there is an unfortunate inclination in the human heart, which Christians should, but have not, mastered, to be more concerned with the sins of others than with our own sins. ... A good deal of Protestantism is little more than anti-Catholicism; and Catholicism is very fond of historical theories which ascribe all the ills of our generation to the destruction of a Catholic civilization by the force of the Protestant Reformation and modern secularism...
The Catholic Error. ". . . Catholic bishops have the practice of rushing to the public and to print, every time Protestants call attention to some form of official Catholic intolerance, with the assertion that it is Christ Himself who is under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the...
The Protestant Error. ". . . We [Protestants] have lacked charity as much as have Catholics, partly because we fail to appreciate the genuine grace of personal religion within this system of official intolerance. Furthermore, we fail to appreciate the real concern for religious values which underlies the Catholic insistence on religious instruction...
"Our constitutional fathers quite obviously and quite rightly wanted to prevent the establishment of religious monopoly. ... It is not at all clear that they sought to prevent the state's support of religion absolutely, provided such support could be given equitably to all religious groups. . . . [The] principle of '...
Though Dixon's handful of Protestants had never liked the idea of nuns teaching their children, they kept their peace so long as the church owned the building where classes were held. But two years ago, Dixon's 800 citizens raised $13,000 to build the community a...