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...John Mackay, Presbyterian president of Princeton Theological Seminary, went to Europe last summer on a special mission: to study the status of Protestants in predominantly Roman Catholic countries. This week, in Presbyterian Life, he published his conclusions. Highlights...
...France is a lay state which is rigidly detached from religion." Dr. Mackay found the influence of France's 700,000 Protestants important out of all proportion to their numbers. Even France's Catholics, he claims, show Protestant influence; seven "distinguished Roman Catholic clergymen" told him they would not want to see France become a "clerical" state like Spain...
...Italy is a clerical state which strives to impede Protestant growth." Though the Protestant minority (some 100,000) are guaranteed religious freedom by the Italian constitution, old Fascist police laws are often invoked locally to prevent them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...
They are Herbert J.E. Kane of the Christchurch (New Zealand) Press, Shane MacKay of the Winnipeg Free Press, and Edmond V. Tipping of the Melbourne Herald...
...political reporter and acting city editor for the Winnipeg Free Press, MacKay covered the 1946-'47 atom spy trials in Ottawa and states that there was very little sensationalism or hysteria associated with the trials...