Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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. . . Bishop Donegan's statistics are poor brief indeed for the two-way-street argument. It may be a two-way street but ... it is a very wide street with about 15 lanes to handle traffic towards Rome and one to handle the Protestant-bound sojourners.
If these statistics be typical of Protestant church conversions, it seems obvious that whatever leakage there is in the Catholic Church is not oriented towards the heirs of Luther or Henry VIII.
General Bennett also reported that many soldiers are turning to the religious Hie. His figures show that 1,400 ex-servicemen are studying to be Roman Catholic priests. No comparable figure is available for Protestant ministers but it has been estimated that about 50% of the students at Protestant seminaries...
¶ Protestant members of an engineer combat group are raising money for a Korean church and school, and the 45th Infantry Division built the first church in Chitose Japan.
Among those supporting the Council's position were Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the World Council of Churches, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.