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Thanks for your summary of the Protestant-Catholic debate [TIME, Sept. 12] . . . My reaction to the controversy is this: let both Protestants and Catholics see the beam in their own eye. Let both remember: "By their fruits shall ye know them." . . .
It seems to me that Protestant-Catholic "tension" exists mostly in the minds of the church leaders. An ex-Presbyterian, I married into a Catholic family who welcomed me with open arms, and have never high-pressured me to join their church . . .
. . . From the welter of confusion and dissension, which have at all times characterized the Protestant sects, has emerged much of the religious indifferentism, worldliness and irreligion which are the marks of contemporary living . . . [Protestants] have thus far found no means of halting the anarchy which stems unceasingly from the Protestant...
in holy Matrimony" or consigned to the grave with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common...
* Methodists, who outnumber any other Protestant group in the U.S., maintain 60% of their 40,397 churches in small communities with congregations of fewer than 300 members