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Growing up in Wellesley, Mass., Page was raised in the United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant tradition.
Built to commemorate Harvard graduates who died in World War I, Memorial Church stands at the center of the Yard, its bells summoning students to class. Nondenominationally Protestant, the Church advertises itself as “a house of prayer for all people.”
According to Pew, 28% of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another one. And that does not even include those who switched from one Protestant denomination to another; if it did, the number would jump to 44%. Says Greg Smith, one of the main researchers for...
Vatican diplomacy is indeed a delicate endeavor, and freedom is a double-edged sword. If the Church is granted the role of mediator in the phase-out of the command economy and state-controlled media, it would apparently have much to gain in securing the good will of Cubans. Still...
Moreover, any amendment to the Act of Settlement would likely trigger political unrest among the militant Northern Irish nationalists. Northern Ireland remained part of the United Kingdom following Irish independence in 1920 because of its significant Protestant majority, which wanted to be governed by the predominantly Protestant government of London...