Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ostling reports that President Clinton's decision to travel to Newark to meet the Pope is a reminder that the Catholic vote will be vital to Clinton's reelection chances: "The Democrats have lost one big bloc in F.D.R.'s old New Deal coalition, white Southerners (mostly Protestant but also...
Even in America, land of religious toleration, this mixture has at time resulted in violence. In 1843, after the Pennsylvania legislature excused Catholics from the Protestant prayers in school, angry Protestants rioted for three days, leaving 13 people dead. When conflict can result from two faiths with so much in...
It is something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the...
Marius also defended himself by citing a 1974book he wrote about the Protestant reformer MartinLuther. In the book, he castigated scholars forfailing to acknowledge Luther's anti-Semitism.
Forgive me for being underwhelmed by this astonishingly belated act of contrition from the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Like most African Americans, I would have been more impressed if the revelation had come a generation ago, when prominent Southern Baptists like George Wallace were standing in the schoolhouse door...