Word: waldensians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...
...mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch...
Your Dec. 24 issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
After that the Waldensians spread southward to the rugged Abruzzi and to the great olive-and vine-growing sections of southern Italy and Sicily. They have also spread to Argentina and Uruguay, where they form the fifth district of the Waldensian Church. In the U.S. Waldensian Italians usually become Presbyterians...