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...TIME's Man of the Year selection, I was most impressed by the Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen's [Jan. 18]. His observation that the Vatican Council has shown "little prospect of changes on the more intractable issues that divide Roman Catholics and their Protestant 'separated brethren' " is soberly accurate. It would have been perfectly accurate had he said that there is no prospect of such changes...
Evangelical United Brethren Church...
...Thus far, there is little prospect of changes on the more intractable issues that divide Roman Catholics and their Protestant "separated brethren," e.g., papal infallibility, the traditional claim of apostolic succession, Mariolatry, increasing dependence of Catholic piety upon an increasing promulgation of miracles, saints, etc. Unless these issues are radically dealt with, the best hope is enlarging fellowship, conversation, and possibly limited cooperation between Catholics and non-Catholics; but no more than that...
...more important-the as yet obscure but growing idea that God's truth may be found in many places, even outside the Church of Rome. Also, it is most encouraging to see the evident conciliation taking place in the Roman Catholic Church in regard to the "Separated Brethren." Now we Protestants must take a closer look at ourselves to see if we will use and have used the mind and spirit of Christ instead of narrow provincialism in our dealings with Rome and with one another. (THE REV.) RICHARD PARKER YAPLE...
...adapt his church's whole life and stance to the revolutionary changes in science, economics, morals and politics that have swept the modern world: to make it, in short, more Catholic and less Roman. Stretching out the hand of friendship to non-Catholics?he calls them "separated brethren"?he demonstrated that the walls that divide Christianity do not reach as high as heaven, and made a start toward that distant and elusive goal, Christian unity...