Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious freedom is one of the fundamentals of the American creed. But how does religion fare in the free society of the U.S.? This week four scholars-Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic-deal with the question in a new study sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. * All express a surprisingly...
¶ The State Department ended the academic stir caused by Protestant-oriented Harvard Divinity School's recent appointment of British Historian Christopher Dawson to a new chair in Roman Catholic studies. The department denied Dawson a visa-"for a strictly medical reason," which it refused to disclose. The reason...
Of all the Protestant ministers in the U.S., two-thirds are in debt, and a large percentage of ministers' wives have to take outside jobs. The U.S. Protestant minister's average cash salary comes to $4,432 a year for a 60-to 80-hour week (New England...
Last November, when Pastor Cannito applied for permission to build a new church (with donations from the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention), war broke out again in Sant'Angelo. Although Rome's Ministry of Public Works gave its approval and the Baptists started to build, the local mayor issued...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest...