Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Rev. Donald MacLeod's letter entitled "Red Hats, Tin Horns" reminds me of the story of the Irishman, who, when his friend asked him if he had joined the Protestant Church on losing his faith in the Catholic, rejoined: "Begorra, I might have lost my faith, but I...
The upper west side of Manhattan, an area thick with university buildings and theological seminaries, is dominated by two great churches-the towering Rockefeller-built Riverside Church and the huge, unfinished Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Last week each made news.
But after Creelman had sprinkled the soldier's ashes on the grounds of his church at Weston, Ont., the Army's principal Protestant chaplain, Colonel J. Logan-Vencta, and Brigadier Churchill Mann showed up, asked for the urn.
...Protestantism is seething. Recently, charges of too much politicking, too much publicity, too much pressuring of press and radio have been openly leveled at the Church of Rome, not only in the Pope-hating Southern Bible Belt but by top-drawer Protestant clerics and laymen as well...
"My second concern goes deeper. It is the practice, lately initiated in the official Catholic press in this country, of vilifying, in a most unworthy way, the Protestant Reformation and its great leaders, particularly Martin Luther and John Calvin. I plead with the distinguished scholars of the Roman Catholic Church...