Religion: Odd Body

Over the centuries, the Church of England has learned an immense patience. It still needs to call on its reserves when dealing with its blatantly Communist-line "Red Dean" of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson. The Archbishop of Canterbury has publicly shaken his head many times over the Red Dean's bland blurts in favor of Communism and all things Russian. In London last week, at the Lord Mayor's dinner for Anglican Bishops, the Archbishop responded to a toast "to the clergy at home and overseas":

"I am bound to confess that to some extent...

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