Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The purposes and intentions of Protestant re ligious retreats.
The Pope was not invited to the ecumenical council being held in Rome last week. At the Eliseo Theater, H miles from St. Peter's, delegates from eight tiny but prosperous Italian Protestant denominations met for their first congress since 1920. Theme of the meeting: how Italian Protestants can...
With only 200,000 members in a traditional stronghold of Roman Catholicism, Italy's Protestants have had a long and painful struggle to gain the right to worship freely. Until 1848, the 35,000 Waldensians-descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant...
Italy's postwar constitution declared that "all religious confessions are equally free under the law"-a freedom often curtailed in practice by the unre-pealed Fascist laws. In the late '40s and early '50s, Protestant missionaries took into their churches many Catholics excommunicated by Pope Pius XII...
Since the papacy of John XXIII, hostility on both sides is giving way-slowly -to dialogue and cooperation. Catholic priests often attend lectures at the Waldensian seminary in Rome, and one Italian Protestant attended the Vatican Council sessions as an official observer. Today, Italian Protestants are cautiously hopeful about the...