Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cal (played by John Lynch) is an unemployed, listless adolescent who lives with his father--the only Catholics remaining on an all, Protestant housing estate. Pro-British regalia clutter the place in a display of fierce loyalty. Threats on their lives, their house, their dignity, abound. Father (played by Donal...
Child abuse, both sides agree, makes the issues particularly agonizing, because the person seeking religious counsel is often continuing the offense. "You have a helpless third person who may suffer while counseling goes on," says Lynn Buzzard of the Christian Legal Society. "I got a call involving a pastor who...
The continuing debate over the proper role of religious leaders in trying to influence public policy and the conflicting pressures on elected officials who hold strong religious beliefs distracted Mondale and Ferraro from their planned campaign strategies. The two Democratic running mates were almost unable to focus attention on the...
Cuomo's speech at Notre Dame revealed a remarkable pragmatism coexisting with strong religious sensibilities. His central argument was that public policy in a democratic and religiously diverse society can be determined only by consensus. Describing himself as "an old-fashioned Catholic who sins, regrets, struggles, worries, gets confused...
...T.S.P.M. was revived by 1980 under the leadership of Nanjing's Bishop Ding Guangxun, 68, a former Anglican. His T.S.P.M. has had an uphill struggle in seeking to regain control of Chinese Protestantism, a battle complicated by a woefully small number of church buildings to accommodate worshipers. The T.S.P.M. estimates there are 3 million Protestants in the country, about the same number as the official count of Catholics. But the respected Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong claims that house-church members swell the Protestant total to 30 million or more. Privately, some Chinese officials say the figure...