Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without question, glossolalia is the fastest-growing fad in U.S. Protestant churches. Once a peculiarity of Pentecostals, "speaking in tongues" has caught on with Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians, and there is now a national association of glossolalists, the Blessed Trinity Society in Van Nuys, Calif. At least 260 of...
Canon law has insisted on priestly celibacy since the Middle Ages, although Eastern-Rite Catholic priests may marry before their ordination. But within the past 13 years, Popes have from time to time approved the ordination of a few convert Protestant ministers for whom leaving their families would be a...
Several other Protestant converts are currently studying for ordination in German seminaries, but no one foresees that there will be any drastic revision of the church's general prohibition against priests with wives. Most American bishops oppose the idea of married priests, and the Vatican has made it clear...
The visitors were hardly across the frontier when their Volkswagen was surrounded by some 50 highly nervous rebel troops carrying pangas, clubs and spears, their uniforms ranging from European suit coats to shorts and grass skirts. From their midst emerged a goateed man known only as "Major," clad in green...
No Challenges. Canon law authorized Mclntyre's move, but he is such a strong-minded man that it was clear from the first he would brook no challenges. A year ago, when Swiss Theologian Hans Küng spoke to Catholics all over the U.S. on reform in the...