but as we seem, one of the problems was that they refused to work with Catholics so their voices didn’t get heard. Even today, I know Catholic groups that have trouble getting Protestants to come pray with them outside abortion facilities. That’s why I appreciate...
There were nearly a million Protestants in Ulster who wanted absolutely no part of home rule. Or, as many imagined it, "Rome rule," a brutal but incompetent dictatorship of drunken, brawling Irish Catholics under the personal direction of the pope. Advertisement: Ulster Protestants were (and ...
aTwo thirds of the singles looking for love in Britain turned to the Internet last year, according to figures made in public yesterday. Special sites offer introductions to smokers, to Roman Catholics, tall people, beautiful people, frequent flyers and vegans (素食者). Technology has brought abo...
aBy the time of Elizabeth's death a third party had emerged, "perfectly hostile" to Puritans, but not adherent to Rome. It preferred the revised Book of Common Prayer of 1559, from which had been removed some of the matters offensive to Catholics.[82] The recusants had been removed from...
Christian [ones].” According to Nissenbaum, “Puritans believed Christmas was basically just a pagan custom that the Catholics took over without any biblical basis for it. The holiday had everything to do with the time of year, the solstice and Saturnalia and nothing to do with Christianity....
America, it is good to learn, or be reminded, that the Puritans once banned Christmas; that the contents of the Bible and the order of the Ten Commandments are different for Protestants and Catholics; that many African slaves were Muslim; and that the Ku Klux Klan had very popular glee ...
So, where did the word “Easter” come from? The exact origin of the word “Easter” is unclear. It’s not as simple as saying it has religious origins or pagan origins. Some historians suggest that it came from the phrasehebdomada alba, Latin for “white week,” used to describe the...
As important as hierarchy may be, the real cypher of missionary success is the growth of Latino Catholics well served. In 1970, the claim that “25% of the Catholic population in the United States is Latino/Hispanic” surprised many U.S. bishops. As a matter of fact, the Latino ...
There’s a thing called “phronema” which often gets translated as “thinking” but is really more like “mindset” and is a big reason why Orthodox Christians (like me) have a hard time talking theology with non-Orthodox Christians (like Catholics and Protestants). Orthodox phronema is ...
There are three ethnic/religious groups that call this area home – the Bosnian Serbs (Orthodox), the Croats (Catholics) and Bosniacs (Muslim). The Bosnian Serbs wanted to remain under Serbian rule and with the help of the Serbian Army (still the army of Yugoslavia), tried to take the...