Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Far back in ecumenical history, in February 1965, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican cautiously decided to form a joint "working group" to study the possibilities of dialogue and collaboration. A beaming Willem Visser 't Hooft, then general secretary of the W.C.C., called it one of the...
After two or three meetings with Kiesinger, Schroder continued to insist that the cutback would mean a drop in army strength. His goading finally led Kiesinger to announce that he would make no decision on any changes in German armed strength before consulting President Johnson, whom he will visit in...
Stunted Development. Some church historians now contend that the repressive measures of Pius X (who was proclaimed a saint in 1954) stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission...
Currently, members of the John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations are complaining that the Post Office is cottoning to subversive types with a 25? stamp portraying Negro Leader Frederick Douglass, a $1 issue honoring Playwright Eugene O'Neill, an 8? Albert Einstein number, and others of Philosopher...
Standing alone, and not in the context of those gathered at Barmen, these statements sound like typical, orthodox, Protestant argumentation. It would be easy to offend a Catholic with such a statement; he might feel that it denied the validity of tradition in the Church. Such statements would be offensive...