The London Times, which likes to set off brisk little intellectual bonfires in its famed letters column, found it had a red-hot religious discussion on its hands. A 2,000-word article by a "Special Correspondent," titled Catholicism Today: Relations between Rome and the Christian World, started it. While he praised the Roman Catholic Church for resistance to Communism, the Times writer questioned whether the Catholic "machinery of ecclesiastical government ... is at the present time perfectly adjusted to Christianity's universal mission. Having no 20th Century Aquinas, the Roman Church sometimes appears intellectually ill...
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