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...nearly 400 years Anglican polemics have usually backfired. The latest outburst of the Archbishop of Canterbury [TIME, Oct. 26] is likely to continue the trend. His Grace entirely overlooked the fact that the two most Catholic nations of Western Europe, Ireland and Spain, have the fewest Communists. As for Roman Catholic "proselytizing in hospitals" about which he complains, I can only speak from . . . bitter experience. I was one of the few laymen in the U.S. ever to found a successful Episcopal (Anglican) mission . . . Two years ago when I was desperately ill ... it was Roman Catholic clergy who ministered unto...
...Negrophobes and Negrophiles. He is hewing straight down the middle, sticking to the trusty evolutionary maxim of famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes: "Equal rights for every civilized man . . ." The undeveloped African, said Huggins last week, "is very inflammable material." He cited the activities of the Rev. Michael Scott, the Anglican divine who has become one of the black men's busiest spokesmen in Africa and before the U.N. "The Reverend Scott," said Huggins bitterly, "recently visited Nyasaland on a 'peaceful mission.' Disturbances among the Negroes followed, and Scott's bag as a result is eleven Negroes...
...Anglican pamphlet drew most of the fire, but Father Thomas Holland, vice-superior of England's Catholic Missionary Society, had a term for the Archbishop of Canterbury too, "The Strange Samaritan." The archbishop's rebuke to Roman Catholics, noted Father Holland in the Catholic Herald, had come just after some highly sympathetic remarks by the archbishop about the plight of the church in Poland. "Against the background of the Polish persecution. The Strange Samaritan has gently poured in acid...
...Anglican pamphlet] is not so much an attack as an expression of interior distress. It is an attempt, resulting from distress, to create unity by negative means. The authors are expressing not so much what they believe as their wish to say: 'This is what we dislike.' The pamphlet has little to add to ancient arguments beyond a certain bitterness of tone...
...iniquitous practice [of selling indulgences directly] has been discontinued, the Roman Church still makes huge profits out of the credulous belief of simple people in indulgences, by the alms which are encouraged when indulgences are sought, and by the sale of rosaries and other 'indulgenced' articles. Few Anglican priests would care to become involved in such wholesale exploitation of simple people's credulity...