Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The widening gulf between Protestants and Catholics has become an important national issue." With these words, the current American Mercury introduced a hammer & tongs Protestant-Catholic debate to bring the points of antagonism between the two faiths "into the open for public examination."
...emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type of organized religion which, because of certain implacable assumptions, claims not merely equality of life and opportunity, but dominance . . . [It] claims ... to be the only church of Christ . . . Bluntly, this means that Rome regards Protestantism as a perversion of Christianity. In every country where it is strong enough, the Roman Church will control, so far as it can, education, the laws concerning marriage and divorce, and regulations about morality generally, not only for its own communicants, but for the whole population...
Union. Although the C.D.U. was the direct descendant of the former Center party, there was a big difference. The Center had been almost entirely Roman Catholic; the C.D.U. broadened its base to include Protestant elements. A somewhat unwieldy conglomeration of religious groups, of Ruhr industrialists and Christian trade unionists, the...
The Old Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction...
Peter at last been found? Delicate Digging. Throughout the centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was...