Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Ervin Kotowski was installed recently as grand knight of Milwaukee's largest Knights of Columbus Council, he got a telegram of congratulations from Circuit Judge Claire Voss, imperial potentate of the city's big Tripoli Masonic Shrine. Exclaimed Kotowski: "Imagine the Shriners congratulating me!" A lot of...
The change is affecting many other Catholic lay groups. A year ago, Boston's Catholic community noted with interest that Cardinal Gushing gave permission for a parish Holy Name Society to have a non-Catholic speaker on religious matters. Now no permission at all is needed for Boston Catholic...
Now, Van Beeck notes, the Second Vatican Council has acknowledged the major Protestant faiths as "churches" rather than just "Christian communions," which implies a recognition of their good faith. On the question of doctrine, Van Beeck observes that contemporary Catholic theologians are in the process of redefining the church'...
Extraordinary Ministers. Thus, the key obstacle is that Protestant ministers are not properly ordained from the Catholic point of view. To solve this dilemma, Van Beeck turns to historical precedent, pointing out that the church has always accepted the validity of sacraments per formed by so-called "extraordinary ministers" under...
-For that matter, most Protestant churches themselves give full sacramental character only to baptism and the Eucharist. Lutherans and Anglicans regard the other sacraments that Catholics hold sacred (ordination, confirmation, marriage, penance and extreme unction) as salutary but subordinate.