Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the shards began to fly last spring Colgate-Palmolive-Peet was innocently turning out "pastillas de Palmolivess" (pronounced Pahl-mo, LEE-vess), the favorite soap of Mexican peasants. At that time Mexican Catholics, alarmed over the missionary activities of Protestant sects, started a new anti-Protestant campaign. Magazines and...
Methodist Bishop Eleazar Guerra appealed for tolerance. Mexico's tiny Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez calmly declared: "Protestant activities do not interest the Catholic Church." And peace was restored for a while.
Then Protestants rubbed Catholic Mexico's sorest spot-history. In newspaper advertisements, they again laid the blame for the French invasion of Mexico (1864) at Church doors. In mid-November Archbishop Martínez pastoral letter blazed at "the perfect organization and powerful financial resources" of Protestant sects. Martinez...
Though ten years retired, William Ralph Inge, London's famed "Gloomy Dean," has lost none of his flair for irritating people. His latest sally, blaming not Hitler but Luther for "the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world" (TIME, Nov. 6), last week brought the 84-year-old...
On that front the Association had powerful allies. The day before the President casually blew his challenge, the archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church joined with Protestant leaders and U.S. educators in opposing any action before war's end. Many labor leaders, so far silent, are also known...