Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Harry Vaughan has seen fit to make an unwarranted, unjust, and wholly unintelligent criticism of the Protestant chaplains of the United States Army [TIME, Sept. 10]. If General Vaughan were merely expressing his personal opinion as a private citizen his remarks could and should be ignored. But this...
General Vaughan seems to think that when chaplains are sent into the Army by a bishop (as is the case with Roman Catholic chaplains), this will insure the selection of only men of the highest type. I have had a wide acquaintance with Roman Catholic chaplains in the Army and...
More than 3,000 servicemen have said they hoped to become Protestant ministers. To guide them, the Federal Council of Churches has set up a sort of vocational-guidance unit, Commission on the Ministry. The Commission's aim is to raise the general level of the Protestant ministry -all...
Deep in Pennsylvania's blue Pocono hills is a 350-acre tract of farm and wood land called Kirkridge. In Kirkridge's ram shackle old farmhouse last week were gathered twelve Protestant ministers and laymen who described themselves as spiritually "hungry." Kirkridge is a "retreat" of an unusual...
With over half the U.S. population belonging to one church or another, the Federal Council of Churches in its 1945 Yearbook of American Churches tallied the reports of 256 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and other religious bodies, found that their membership had reached the alltime high of 72,492,669 - a...