Donne was 43 when he agreed to be ordained in the Protestant church.
The opposition she joined was tiny, mostly confined to a few parishes in the Protestant church, heavily infiltrated by the Stasi and weakened by the systematic exile of its leaders to the West.
Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.
More controversial is the government "church tax" on those in Catholic or Protestant religions, among others, which is collected to fund churches regardless of attendance.
Pope Benedict then attended an evening ecumenical service with Protestant and Orthodox clergy at St Joseph's church in Manhattan.
But overall, the story of the Latin American church has been one of decline in recent years amid a rise of Evangelical Protestant churches imported from the U.S. or home grown.
The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.
For the first time, fewer than 50% (48%, in fact) of adults identified as Protestant, and those numbers are going down both in traditional mainline denominations, such as my United Church of Christ, and evangelical churches.
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Defying her core supporters in the liberal community and the Catholic Church, she endorsed Ramos, an architect of martial law and a Protestant, as the candidate best equipped to restore stability and promote economic recovery.
Many Catholics have cheered the ascension of Francis, especially in Latin America, where his appointment is expected to reinvigorate the church, which has been losing ground recently to Protestant evangelicals.
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