Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The question popped up again & again: "Is it true that the Roman Catholic chaplains were better men and did a better job in the service than Protestants?" In last week's Christian Century, ex-Navy Chaplain John Ruskin Clark, who served with the Marines, gave an answer that underscored...
". . . The reason Protestant chaplains received less recognition is a clue to the reason Protestant churches as a whole make less impression on the channels of public persuasion. . . .
"It was not the quality of the men who wore the crosses, nor was it solely the amount of money spent in an organized publicity campaign. . . . The Protestant chaplain received less recognition than the Catholic because of the radically different resources with which he worked. The disparity was only more...
A Want of Drama. "To combat photographers, that was the sort of dramatic scene that makes a good news picture. News photos show the dramatic, and there is little of the dramatic in Protestant practice. . . .
"... I had no religious ministrations that I could confidently use to ease the emotional tension of the Protestant wounded. The priest, on the other hand, administered the appropriate rite to all Catholic wounded. His religious rites were taken so seriously, by himself and by the Catholics around him, that he...