Is religious tolerance simply a matter of fair play? U.S. Protestants who think so often boil with indignation at the Roman Catholic Church, which accepts the advantages of tolerance in non-Catholic countries but sternly discourages other faiths in areas where Catholics are in the majority.
One of the newest and clearest statements of the Catholic position appeared recently in Rome in the Jesuits' fortnightly La Civilità Cattolica. Excerpts are quoted in this week's Christian Century:
"The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true church, must demand the right to freedom for herself alone, because such a right...
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