Religion: Clericalism & Vilification

U.S. Protestantism is seething. Recently, charges of too much politicking, too much publicity, too much pressuring of press and radio have been openly leveled at the Church of Rome, not only in the Pope-hating Southern Bible Belt but by top-drawer Protestant clerics and laymen as well.

Last week the president of Princeton's conservative Theological Seminary, Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with decry) raised his Presbyterian voice:

"Two things fill me with concern regarding present trends in this country within our great sister communion, the Roman Catholic Church. The first is its increasing commitment to a Roman, as distinguished from the traditionally independent,...

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