Religion: The Nuclear Issue Gets Personal

Britain's papal nuncio says a peace priest may be a Soviet dupe

Disarm, cried a cleric called Kent.

The same message nice Andropov sent:

Just lay down your arms,

Embrace Socialist charms,

Then wonder where your freedom went.

Delivering that limerick in the House of Commons, Conservative M.P. Robert Adley last month twitted a Roman Catholic priest who particularly nettles the Tories: Monsignor Bruce Kent, 53, the tireless general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Britain's most important peace group.

Kent's advocacy of unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain has touched off a controversy among the...

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