Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's stature as a leader will be greatly enhanced if Andrew Young's replacement is chosen solely because of his competence, even if he happens to be a "traditional, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Foggy Bottom-type."
Harvard invited the Pope to give an annual lecture traditionally related to Protestant-Roman Catholic relations, Rupp said. He added that ironically, the lecture series began as a polemic against Roman Catholicism, but that it changed about two decades ago.
Because Harvard began as a Protestant university, "it has less claim on the Pope than the millions of Roman Catholics in the United States," Rupp said.
Controversy has erupted over whether the city of Boston or the archdiocese will pay for the papal visit, especially for the 150-foot platform and altar to be constructed on Boston Common. Some Protestant groups and Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union officials have said that if the city pays for the...
FitzGerald's account begins in the early 1800s, when U.S. schools relied heavily on textbooks because of a shortage of trained teachers. The dependence was so marked that textbook use in Europe became known as "the American system." The authors, often clergymen, had no problem defining the national identity...