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...Britain's 50 million inhabitants, about 3½ million are Roman Catholics. The leaders of that church in Britain have traditionally included many men notable in the arts, public life, or scholarship-of whom Msgr. Ronald Knox, wit, popular author, preacher and Biblical scholar, is a brilliant example...
...Monsignor Knox is probably the outstanding Roman Catholic churchman in Britain. He has recently completed the first Catholic translation of the complete Bible into English in more than 350 years. Novelist Evelyn Waugh has suggested that, as Bible reading declines among non-Catholics, Knox's Bible may some day be the best-known version in English. Its clearness and freshness of style have made readers feel they were opening a new book...
...Knox was already famous when he sat down, more than twelve years ago, to his work of translation-famous as a preacher, as a scholar, as a writer of detective novels and as a wit, but chiefly famous as a man. In the years before 1914, when the first plays of Somerset Maugham were delighting London with their brilliance, Knox already had a reputation for his wit and his satires against watery faith and confused thought...
...Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S., as Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill has remarked, is "the roomiest church in the world." But despite the doctrinal roominess, there remains a sharp-edged division between its High and Low Church members-between those who regard their church as basically (Anglo) Catholic and those who emphasize its Protestantism. Last week U.S. Episcopalians got a new publication dedicated to smoothing the sharp edges of division, and giving the church a national news magazine into the bargain. The unity which Episcopal Churchnews seeks to promote is expressed on its logotype: "Catholic for every Truth...
Decision in Italy. In the summer of 1941 he was back in Washington again, this time as a special assistant to Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. Stevenson wrote Knox's speeches and acted as his troubleshooter. In 1943, he led a civilian mission to Italy to work on occupation plans. There he "saw a public-opinion poll in which seven out of ten American parents said they didn't want their boys to enter public life. Think of it! Boys could die in combat, but parents didn't want their children to give their living efforts...