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Thank you for printing, in your admirable Religion section, the New Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody...
Grace Episcopal Church...
...once connected with a seminary where, in response to a questionnaire, a fair number of students opined that the greatest menace to the good name of the Catholic Church of that time was Father Coughlin. Today, and in my opinion, it is Mr. Evelyn Waugh...
Among other Christian bodies, the Russian Orthodox Church had been invited to Amsterdam. Would the Russians come? From Moscow last week, where bearded Orthodox Church dignitaries ended a series of meetings, meals and motorcades celebrating their church's sooth anniversary, the answer came: no. Amsterdam, said the voice of Moscow, was "mainly political and anti-democratic...
...Church of Moscow also had a word for the Church of Rome: "The Vatican is the center of international Fascism...