Word: protestantitis
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About 450 A.D. St. Patrick made his headquarters at Armagh, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, where King Daire of Airgialla gave him the ground for a church and a monastery. Armagh is still the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, with a Protestant and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Both Northern and Southern...
Pooled Ideas. The new organization is called the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Nine years in the making, it is a merger of the most important Protestant and Eastern Orthodox agencies in the U.S. One of them, the Federal Council of Churches, was itself a federation...
The National Council's work will be divided into four major fields-Education, Life & Work (to deal with such problems as race relations and economic injustice), Home Missions and Foreign Missions. Through these divisions the council's impact will be felt in 150,000 Protestant and Orthodox member...
Effective Procedures. The council's first president: handsome, 60-year-old Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which post he was elected in 1947-one of the youngest men ever so honored. A longtime leader of the ecumenical movement in the U.S., Brooklyn...
Next to a colony of Tibetan beggars, whom he feeds and looks after, lives long-bearded Protestant Missionary Walter Morse. His only assistant is a young Tibetan leper, who lives with him for treatment and serves coffee to visitors. Morse tries to reassure his guests: "I think I've...