Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compared to the militant Catholic supporters of the Irish Republican Army, or the equally militant Protestant backers of the Ulster Defense Association, the moderates now represent a comparatively small segment of organized political opinion. But since the British government presented its White Paper (TIME, April 2), setting the ground rules...
Ulstermen have never taken naturally to the political center, if only because they like a little fire and brimstone from their politicians. Moderates, like Ulster's former (1963-69) Unionist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, too frequently seemed like moral Milquetoasts, beset by a fatal whiff of goodness...
...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
The Church Project on U.S. Investments in Southern Africa, a coalition of Protestant denominations is sponsoring resolutions that would force a number of American companies to send their stockholders information on their South African operations.
The most active members of the national campaign for corporate "social responsibility" have been the Project for Corporate Responsibility (PCR) and various coalitions of concerned Protestant denominations. And two years ago, in an effort to assist church groups with research on their respective investments, the National Council of Churches established...