Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of William Purcell Witcutt [TiME, Jan. 17] is interesting even from an academic point of view. It so happens that all truth is as rigid as 2 times 2 makes 4. If he is logical, rejecting the Roman Catholic faith on account of its "rigidity," he will have to deny all truth. The poor man will have to reject the fact that the world is round, that the common housefly usually has two wings-to cite only a couple of examples...
While our Roman Catholic brethren will tell you that they did not like your article about the reconversion of William Purcell Witcutt to Protestantism, I like it very much...
...marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs...
Silent Husbands. With help from 22 churches, Professor Leiffer & associates interviewed one or both partners in 743 "mixed" marriages. More than one-third (271) were marriages of Lutherans and Roman Catholics; marriages of non-Lutheran Protestants to Catholics (209) were almost equaled in number by interdenominational marriages between Protestants...
...commonest adjustment to a mixed marriage, says Leiffer, is for one or both of the partners to stop taking an interest in church. "Of the 444 men who were involved in a Roman Catholic-Protestant marriage, no no longer had even a nominal connection with their old church and 124 had not attended church for a year. Of the 449 wives involved in such marriages ... 60 claimed no church affiliation and 91 had not attended church for a year." Usually it is the husband who sacrifices his religion on the altar of marital concord. Typical, reports Leiffer, is an interview...