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...good feeling between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the U.S. was sighted last week by one of the nation's top Catholic theologians. The Rev. Gustave A. Weigel of Maryland's Jesuit Woodstock College. School of Sacred Theology, told the 48th annual convention of the Catholic Press Association in Richmond that "the Catholic is now interested in the Protestant as a Protestant and the Protestant is even more interested in the Catholic as a Catholic...
...Protestant interest, said Father Weigel, is the result of three factors: "numerical increase of Catholics (see below), the loss of Protestant inviolability, and the weakening hold of the Protestant churches on their members." Together these factors have "produced anxiety in Protestantism" and "anxiety engendered humility...
Candles & Statues. Said Father Weigel: "When the minister looked at his congregation of 60 middle-aged and old folk at his Sunday morning service in a church big enough for 300, he could not help thinking of the Catholic church across the street where the building was filled five times every Sunday morning. He was probably angry at first, but later he became curious. How could the Catholics do what his church could not do? He had to study the Catholic church; he could no longer ignore...
...commenting on Father Weigel's criticism of American Catholic scholarship, your Letters correspondents [July 29] made the unscholarly assumption that his strictures touched Catholic scholarship as such. The criticism, which is now a commonplace among American Catholic intellectuals, does not bear on the admirable Catholic scholarship of Europe. Now that Catholic intellectualism in the U.S. is on the point of coming to maturity (and criticisms like that of Father Weigel are signs of this maturation), our remaining problems are largely financial. If someone were to give me one-fourth of the funds of Harvard, we would, in this graduate...
...Jesuit Weigel's objective statements concerning the Roman Catholics' small contribution to U.S. scholarship [July 8] are to be highly commended. Could the reason for this be that the totalitarian nature of Roman Catholicism, with its thought-control mechanisms of censorship, blacklisting, "excommunication" threats, etc., creates an atmosphere in which the necessary spirit of truly free inquiry cannot exist...