Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, wondered publicly whether the U.S. is not getting too glib in talking about a "religious revival." The term is being "used too often, and too much is expected of it," he said to a church...
Influential Protestant leaders, guided by that submariner-turned-neutralist. Pastor Martin NiemÖller, issued a circular warning that the Paris accords "could endanger our all-German existence." A West German student federation began a nationwide poll of young people, which was expected to show widespread opposition to military service...
Besides Father Lévesque, St. Laurent planned to give Senate seats to a Protestant churchman and to eight other non-political figures in public life. Dr. Wilder Penfield, Montreal's famed U.S.-born neurosurgeon, was another prospect.
Dillenberger stressed that the Divinity School has no creedal requirements; it is "non-sectarian in the exclusion of official partisanship for the tenets of any particular religious group within the Protestant framework.
"We are with you," they promised. "We have never had a priest as wonderful as you." A delegation from the villages went to Cardinal Saliège. Dubois pledged himself to preach the dogma he had already denied, because he said he found "nothing opposed" to it in the Bible...