Word: protestantism
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* An English Protestant divine burned at the stake for heresy in 1555.
The change is coming about partly because the Reagan Administration no longer worries about the negative political effects of Vatican ties. In fact Republican strategists are far more interested in the number of Roman Catholic votes they might gain in 1984. It is known that the White House has sounded...
The history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters...
John Paul engaged in diplomacy of an entirely different sort last week, becoming the first Pope to preach in a Lutheran church and the first to join in any Protestant worship in Italy. The place was the severe, white stone Christuskirche (Christ Church), which mainly serves the German diplomatic and...
Yet neither letter nor homily gave any indication that John Paul is about to foster closer Catholic-Lutheran relations. Explains a Vatican prelate who is very close to John Paul: "This Pope understands there can be no merger of Catholic and Protestant churches for many, many years, and probably many...