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These sound sentiments were voiced last week by a man who is a Baptist by birth but a Christian by conviction: John D. Rockefeller Jr. He has given much of his life and fortune to the cause of church unity. Last week, as he often had before, John D. Jr...
8) One World. The charter should clearly specify that the world organization is open to "all nations willing to accept the obligations of membership." The Protestant critics apparently felt that the present bars against enemy countries and satellites are too rigid.
* Last November, 118 U.S. Catholic bishops and archbishops took a different course. They made their approval of Dumbarton Oaks conditional upon vital changes (TIME, Nov. 27). Like the Protestant leaders, they wanted to make Dumbarton Oaks less of a big-power vehicle, more of a world association based on principles...
"The Roman Catholic hierarchy is engaged in a deliberate attempt to take away from the Protestant churches of America [their] leadership in religious life . . . and are seeking ultimately to take the leadership in the political life of the country. . . ."
Dr. Vale insists that he is not conducting a campaign against the Catholics and is merely answering issues which they have raised at a time when unity is imperative. But some felt that his sermons narrowly skirt the kind of anti-Catholic talk which incites religious intolerance. The coincidence of...