Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since 1689, when its Protestant citizens cried "No surrender!" and withstood a 105-day siege by the Catholic armies of James II, the city of Londonderry has been the symbol of Protestant triumph and Catholic humiliation. For nearly three centuries after the siege, Catholic residents of the city were...
The Derry accommodation began slowly with the termination in 1969 of the Protestant-controlled municipal corporation that administered the city. Four years later, after direct British rule had begun, Westminster set up elections for a new city council, whose 27 members are chosen on a one-man, one-vote basis...
By then Paul had already begun to translate that principle into action. In January 1964 he journeyed to Jerusalem to meet and embrace Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I,on the Holy City's Mount of Olives. The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the...
For Ostling, gaining a private talk with one of the world's most important religious leaders was the latest accomplishment of a career that began in 1963. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, he wrote for Christianity Today, a Protestant publication (his own beliefs, he...
What lamentable arrogance and condescension are displayed by Andrew Greeley in his item on celibacy [July 10]. Catholic priests may be freer to serve their people than married Protestant ministers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they make themselves more available to their people. Having had dealings with...