Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King George's death caught Parliament in the midst of one of the fiercest debates in its recent history, and instantly stilled that debate (see above). On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Commons met briefly to hear the news officially announced by the Prime Minister, and then recessed. The...
Mary I (1553-1558) tried to restore Catholicism in England, but the fires of her persecutions only hardened Protestantism, increasing its popularity and making its triumph inevitable. She had a personal reason for being anti-Protestant: when her father, lusty Henry VIII, defied Rome and nullified his marriage to her mother, Catherine of Aragon, for a time Mary had to renounce her royal claims and style herself a bastard. She was an honest, well-intentioned woman who withered everything she loved and unintentionally fostered what she hated. To please her husband, Philip II of Spain, she enlisted England...
Two hundred years later, Nathan Matthews bequeathed $100,000 for a college hall. There was one condition: that half of the net income from rents was to "be used to provide scholarships for students who enter college with the intention of becoming ministers in the Protestant Episcopal Church." So, brick...
Why had no action been taken for so long? Why the abrupt 72-hour notice? Hospital authorities refused to answer those questions. Said the Rt. Rev. Michael P. O'Shea, dean of Roman Catholic clergy in the area: "Everyone knows where the hospital stands on the question of birth...
When Evangelist Billy Graham began drawing crowds to Washington's National Guard armory with his prayer "crusade" (TIME, Jan. 28), most of the capital's Protestant clergymen looked on with either approval or polite silence. Not so the Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of Washington's socially...