Religion: For a New Society

Church of England liberals moved boldly last week to seize for the Church leadership in "ordering the new society" which they found "quite evidently emerging" from the war.

To that end they stole a march on the Government with a program of post-war aims which, coming from any group, would be startling. Coming from the traditionally complacent and conservative Established Church it was little short of revolutionary. It called for unification of Europe in a cooperative commonwealth, communal ownership of the means of production, more religion and less liturgy. On the negative side...

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