Word: protestantitis
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Ten years ago, when Al Smith ran for President, bellowed at by Alabama's Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor...
...Catholic college as soon as U. S. bishops furnish priests. On the other hand, South Americans resent U. S. Protestant proselytizing, deplore the fact that, instead of going after the pagan and the unchurched, U. S. missionaries (except the Episcopalians) attempt to convert good Roman Catholics to Protestantism...
Year and a half ago the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. was glad-eyed by the Protestant Episcopal Church, which officially avowed its desire "to achieve organic union." Last spring, the Presbyterian Church murmured its "yes," and commissions set about drawing up a marriage agreement (TIME, June 6...
In London last autumn the World Union of Freethinkers held a convention (TIME, Sept. 19). Scareheaded by some religious papers as a "Godless Congress," the milk-mild meeting piqued Soviet Russian Godless leaders because it was not nearly atheistic enough. Last week a long article in Antireligioznik, Soviet Godless journal...
That night in Washington some 800 delegates representing 274 organizations met to urge lifting the embargo. A rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and...