Religion: Whosoever Thou Art...

"The acrimonious relations between Catholics and Protestants in this country are scandalous." So writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Protestantism's top intellectual spokesmen, in the current issue of his fortnightly journal, Christianity and Crisis. Many a Christian will agree that: "If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice in the stern, three-point scolding Niebuhr...

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