Religion: The Papist Plot

"There is an organization seeking to control the United States today that is more subversive to our basic American democratic way of life than all the Communist hordes ... It is the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, [which] seeks to discredit and destroy other religious groups in the United States . . . and to establish fascism in America!"

This diatribe by Junior Lowell Kirby, 24, of Athens' University of Georgia, appeared in the final issue of the college paper, The Red and Black. It left Catholic students (275 in an enrollment of 5,500)...

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