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Holland's biggest political question was: Would the Catholics now join the Party of Labor (which had explicitly renounced Marxism) in a coalition government to continue the Schermerhorn government's state planning in Holland, or would they form a government with the remnants of the Protestant parties?
...Protestantism there is a great movement back to orthodoxy and away from humanism; and in some of the Protestant churches there is a marked movement toward a higher view of the church and the sacraments...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon...
The American Gomorrah, half-deserted by winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather...