It addresses Protestant and Catholic tension in Northern Ireland, and also racism in the United States.
I have intentionally omitted discussing "Reverend" and "Father," titles often used when directly addressing Protestant or Roman Catholic members of the clergy; they are titles of respect and do not exemplify aspects of the clergyperson's responsibilities.
The Papal States were restored, and in 1530 the pope crowned Charles V emperor and king of Italy and made vague promises to call a council to address the Protestant schism and reform the church.
He began with Priestley's Address to Protestant Dissenters of All Denominations, on the Approaching Election of Members of Parliament (1774), which urged Dissenters to vote for candidates that guaranteed the American colonists their freedom.
In 2010, Chaput, also addressing a Protestant audience in that Texas city, said that Kennedy's speech was "sincere, compelling, articulate -- and wrong".
In 1990 he spoke of how Christ's admiring references to the once-despised Samaritans had transformed relations between Samaritans and Jews, "making the two divided peoples into one 'new creation' in Christ" – a dramatically apposite quotation in an address to Protestants setting out his vision for the future of Ireland.
Mainline institutions often invited Mr. Graham to address their constituents; the Protestant Council of the City of New York sponsored his historic 1957 Madison Square Garden crusade.
In the wake of sex-abuse scandals at a number of Christian organizations, Kathryn Joyce recently wrote for The American Prospect about a group called GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), headed by Billy Graham's grandson Boz Tchividjian, which is trying to change the way in which Protestant churches address cases of abuse.
1. Do orthodox Protestant religious leaders address the topic of vaccination in their contacts with members of their congregations?
Liturgies and hymns appealed to the heart and soul, but Protestant theologians also addressed the mind through an impressive outpouring of works in systematic theology and dogmatics.
