Word: protestantitis
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Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating...
Two months ago Adelheide was organized as a Christian Youth Village. The British military government was faced with alarming numbers of children who crossed from the Russian zone to wander, begging and black-marketeering, from town to town. Germany's Protestant and Catholic churches were called on for help...
Most of the children look upon Adelheide as the next thing to heaven. With almost no urging, they have organized an orchestra, a fortnightly Mimeographed paper, a system of student government. But sometimes there are problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these...
The Christian Century lamented that "the Roman Catholic Church, with its pageantry and color, will have an appeal in television which the Protestant churches lack." The telegenic Catholic Church seemed to have its own problems. In December, worshipers in the New York metropolitan area were warned that watching Mass over...
¶ Television was also viewed with alarm, by religious leaders. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture . . . Much of what is still wholesome in our life will perish under the impact of this new...