Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judged on the basis of my actions rather than someone's idea of what the precepts of my faith are." It was a confrontation reminiscent of John Kennedy's with the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, where Kennedy convinced many skeptical Protestants that a Roman Catholic could be a fair President...
Under the new rules, which go into effect immediately, the two half courses will not have to be related. For example, instead of following History 109a, "History of the Roman Republic," with History of the Roman Empire," a student could take History 114b, "The Late Middle Ages," an unrelated course within the same area...
Most of the nation's ecumenical parishes have been organized in order to serve poverty-plagued urban slum neighborhoods, where shrinking financial resources often make it difficult to maintain separate churches. A case in point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will...
Ecumenical parishes need not necessarily abandon their denominational identity. One of the nation's largest ecclesiastical combines is the Bushwick parish in Brooklyn, where 37 Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have joined "to unite the resources of the Christian community in a concerted attack" on the socioeconomic problems of the poverty-ridden district. Recently they hired a full-time coordinator, Presbyterian Minister John Peterson, to advise member-ministers on programs they might develop. The parish so far has fielded volunteer-manned patrol cars to assist police in curbing crime, organized a child-care program for working mothers...
...Christian rituals, few are subject to more varied interpretation than confirmation. For Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, it is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ; for Protestants it is a church-created rite signifying the recipient's mature acceptance of faith. Despite the differences, both Catholics and Protestants are currently giving new thought to the meaning of confirmation-and to the age at which it should take place...