Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: “Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism.”
No U. S. Protestant leader made answer. Of representative Protestant journals, only the Christian Herald took notice of the Pope’s statement. Editor Stanley High quoted it, made no comment. Said an editor of the Protestant Episcopal Churchman: “Only the Protestant editors are getting more and more exhausted.”
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