U.S. Protestants and Catholics are getting neurotic about each other, says Protestant The Christian Century in an editorial for Reformation Sunday (Oct. 30). U.S. Psychoanalyst Karen Homey once cited a danger signal for personal neurosis: response that is out of proportion to the stimulus that set it off. And this, says the Century, is exactly the way Protestantism is becoming when confronted by Roman Catholicism.
"Probe a 1955 Protestant, and in altogether too many cases you will find him 'touchiest' on the subject of Roman Catholicism. After 435 years, the alarm bells still ring most wildly and the panic flags still flutter...
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