Word: protestantitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Started in Manhattan in 1789 on a borrowed capital of $600, the Methodist Board of Publication is America's oldest and biggest religious publishing house. Last week it reported a whopping $5,524,429 gross in the first combined year of operation since the Methodist Episcopal, M.E. South and...
Back to the Vatican last week flew the only envoy the U.S. has sent to the Holy See since 1867, tight-lipped Protestant Myron C. Taylor. No explanation was vouchsafed for his return. So speculation began buzzing.
>The Army announced a tabulation of religious preferences showing 59% of all U.S. soldiers are Protestants, 31% Catholics, 2% Jewish and 8% of no denomination. Comparable breakdown for the 55,807,366 church members listed in the latest (1936) official U.S. religious census: 55% Protestant, 37% Catholic, 8% Jewish.
A new high in religious interventionism was set last week by the fourth biennial Williamstown Conference,* which drew 850 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders to Williamstown, Mass. last week to discuss "The World We Want to Live In." No votes were taken, but anti-Hitler sentiment ran so strong (particularly...
"The first concern of all," said Jewish Co-Chairman Roger W. Straus in summing up the conference, "was that totalitarianism be crushed." Catholic Co-Chairman Carlton J. H. Hayes was applauded for saying America must end her "aloofness and holier-than-thou attitude." Even Protestant Pacifist Walter Van Kirk, head...