Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Pope's creation of 32 new cardinals (TIME, Dec. 31) was a tremendous gesture of spiritual empire. The new cardinalates, in 19 countries, scattered over six continents, showed, as no Protestant gesture could, the worldwide character of the Roman Catholic Church. The action was also one of the...
Canada's new place as a leading "middle power" was duly recognized by the selection of her first English-speaking cardinal, Toronto's balding, blue-eyed Archbishop James Charles McGuigan (rhymes with McTwiggan), to balance French-speaking Quebec's Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve. When Cardinal-designate McGuigan was...
Nor did the Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation.
This prayer for a united Christendom was repeated last week by Pope Pius XII. With the same prayer the Council of Trent in 1563 had closed its 18-year deliberations to combat the schism born of Martin Luther's theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. The Council...
Said "Bull" Halsey, for 45 years a member of the Annapolis high priesthood: "One might just as well ask a committee composed of a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew to save our national souls by recommending a national church and creed."