Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In an interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread...
Yet even this last barrier is now being experimentally, and rather furtively, lowered. Last month Dr. Albert van den Heuvel of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department told a Chicago audience that priests and ministers impatient at the slow pace of organized ecumenical progress are celebrating the Eucharist...
Breaking the Law. For Catholics and most Protestants, this kind of ecumenical disobedience is a violation of church rule. Catholicism's canon law forbids interCommunion, although an exception is made for Eastern Rite Catholics, who under certain circumstances may receive - the sacraments in Orthodox churches. While some Protestant groups...
In early 1941, when Hitler's troops stood poised across the English Channel from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see...
Even now, following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful...