Word: protestantitis
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¶ In Philadelphia, the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Protestant Radio Commission, demanded more religious broadcasts: "We will not bow before the demands that soap and cigarettes be first in people's thinking . . . Religion is not a hobby with the American people, nor is it a hunger...
No, said President Truman, and then offhandedly gave the newsmen a break: a regular minister to the Vatican-for the first time since a Protestant-minded Congress had stopped appropriations for one in 1867-was being considered.
* Commemorating the burning of Protestant Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley in 1555, of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1556.
Twelve-Mile Limit. Protestant missionaries, particularly the Seventh Day Adventists, have done what little they could to curb the mass drunks. Catholic authority over the Indians is at a low ebb because there are so few priests on the altiplano.
"To the anxious mothers and wives whose sons and husbands are bearing the burden of the campaign," said Colonel Bennett, "I want to say that all is being done that is humanly possible to be done to assure that Catholic, Protestant and Jewish chaplains are present to minister to those...