When Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen described the devil to his radio audience (TIME, Feb. 3), Unitarians were quick to note that Father Sheen's Satan sounded like nothing so much as a good Unitarian. Last week the Unitarians came out swinging. Hopping mad was jowlish, Netherlands-born Author Pierre van Paassen (Days of Our Years), a Unitarian minister (with no parish) since January 1946.
Unitarian van Paassen chose to speak his piece* in one of Catholicism's U.S. strongholdsBoston (which is also the citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such...