Religion: Catholics on Strike

When a moral question comes up, the Roman Catholic Church searches diligently for a specific answer. To solve a Catholic's problems, canonical experts are constantly at work combining and restating scriptural reading and papal encyclicals in terms of modern living.

One such expert, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, associate professor of moral theology at Washington's Catholic University of America, has carefully spelled out the Catholic answer for such diverse occupational groups as doctors and policemen (TIME, June 3). In the current issue of his university's magazine for the priesthood, the American Ecclesiastical Review, Father Connell addresses himself to C.I.O. President Philip Murray...

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