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DIED. John Coventry Smith, 80, a leader of the U.S. Protestant missionary movement and a former president of the World Council of Churches; after a heart attack; in Abington, Pa. Smith, a Presbyterian, played a vital role in the postwar movements toward interdenominational unity and the independence of Third World...
* An English Protestant divine burned at the stake for heresy in 1555.
The history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters...
John Paul engaged in diplomacy of an entirely different sort last week, becoming the first Pope to preach in a Lutheran church and the first to join in any Protestant worship in Italy. The place was the severe, white stone Christuskirche (Christ Church), which mainly serves the German diplomatic and...
Yet neither letter nor homily gave any indication that John Paul is about to foster closer Catholic-Lutheran relations. Explains a Vatican prelate who is very close to John Paul: "This Pope understands there can be no merger of Catholic and Protestant churches for many, many years, and probably many...