Word: protestantitis
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Well does a U. S. President know that he must step gingerly among religious sectarians, and always speak softly to all sects. President Hoover, Quaker, has been particularly cautious. His victory over Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith was fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious...
"The effects of these historical events are reflected in our national life and institutions, in religion through the predominant numbers of adherents of Protestant faiths and in government through the principle of separation of Church and State.
"It does matter very much to the whole constitutional structure of our country and its institutions that the President of all the people, who is called by virtue of his great office to respect the religious rights of all, congratulates one particular religious body on the changes it introduced from...
Gallop to Woolsack. Battling Protestant that he was, "F. E." fought the granting of "home rule" to Ireland before the War?for this would have meant rule of Irish Protestants (Ulstermen) by Irish Catholics. When violence seemed the only way to head off home rule, the prizefighter's grandson went...
California Catholics revere him for maintaining the firm status of their church during a period when Protestant fundamentalists have poured into the state from the midwest prairies, and the irreligious from the Atlantic seaboard.