Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The sub's name, chosen by Texas Senator John Tower, was always intended to refer to the port city of 332,000 rather than the sacrament of the Eucharist. But many Roman Catholic priests and bishops insisted that selecting such a name for a warship that may well be...
The other half of the fallacy attributes to the words a power to conjure up images that verbs would evoke far more precisely-and assumes the audience will see some sort of universal meaning in a name like "San Francisco". In "West Side," Nye sets up a conflict in language...
Protestant churches have been equally outspoken. The National Council of Churches, which represents 40 million Protestants, supports a bilateral nuclear freeze. The 1.6 million-member American Baptist Churches declared in December that "the presence of nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them is a direct affront to our Christian...
But this time opposition is more organized, lead by a coalition of religious groups. While state Protestant leaders have always worked against capital punishment driver, this year Catholic and Jewish organisations have actively joined them.
Other clergy have also spoken out against the Administration. Last week a group of more than 350 church leaders, most of them Protestant but including Catholics and Jews, called for an end to U.S. military aid to El Salvador. But the crucial role of the Roman Catholic Church in Central...