Word: protestantitis
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Last week Stanley I. Stuber, press-relations man for the Northern Baptist Convention, echoing widespread U.S. Protestant irritation, asked why. Wrote he, to the New York Times:
. . . Do you not think we have given about enough publicity to "red hats" and "tin horns" of Roman Catholicism? They have rights, but should these rights be disproportionate? Is there not any room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given...
The delegates of 90 Protestant and Orthodox church groups from 32 nations, winding up their momentous meeting in Geneva (TIME, March 4), were uneasy because they felt that the nations of the world now seem "impotent to deal with the crucial problems of international order."
To give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover...
Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's...