The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-20

to be unfolding. The lies and the islanders come first from one di- rection and then from another. The weekly America" this week points out that the new movement Is gathering momentum and that if it continues at its present pace. Tt will not be long before the hooded figures and flaming crosses will again appear in our midst. AND THEY ARE MANY
 What are some of the ''incidents2"
 On January 26 "Time" publicly rebuked a national leader of one of the non-Catholic churches for conducting under the guise of a national tour of religious lectures "a Blam-bang crusade against the Catholic church"
 Recently in the New York Post Edgar Mowrer wrote such a bigcted article against the church that the editor of the Post felt compelled to rebuke him severely in an ad- joining column on the same page for smearing the Church in an out dated manner of the Klu Klux Klan.
 A national on-Catholic but re- ligious publication has just complet- ed series of eight articles under the title Gan Catholics Win Amer ica?" Though the articles were written in a dignified style they bristle with false assumptions and misleading insinuations and the whole tenor of the series was defin- jtolH fn he Church.
 THE PROTESTANT
 Of course the monthly The Protestant" has been on the Scence now for about three years ana though it has been denounced by both Catholics and non-Catholic leaders 1t still continues to do its nasty task of promoting hatred of the Catholic church and its second principal objective, the pro- motion of the Communist Party line. According to reports the most prominent person to recently dis avoUed sympathy with the publi- cation is Mrs. Roosevelt.
 But 'The Protestant" and its ac- tivities seems to have taken on a new and most deplorable aspect during the past few weeks. Ken meth Leslie, the arch-bigot who edits "The Protestant" either joined with 1,163 ministers and laymen or they joined with him in endorsing his sentiments in the published statement so roundly denounced by Archbishop Spellman in St. Patrick s cathedral on last Sunday.
 WHO SPEAKS -. ..-- --
 Tn the Transcript this week the editor writes thus:
 Once we wondered whether MT. Leslie spoke for himself alone or of American Professionalism. Now we know that he does not speak for himself alone. For 1,163 minis ters and laymen have joined ill his hymn of hate. How representative of the entire Protestant body are the 1,163? This is crucial ques- tion. If this smearbund is typical of American Protestantism, national tragedy is imminent in the deliber- ate unleashing of naked fury against Catholics"
 ACL uo hCCp Ou1 ULl4AAhAAAB oIA dABA4I' If we are going to thump for tol- erance, let us insist that it be tol- erance for all people. If we are going to condemn intolerance and hatred and persecution, let us not pick and choose among the brands of intolerance and hatred. Con- demn rather all intolerance, all hatred and all prosecutions.
 Indeed it is regretable. and it may be tragic, that in an hour of na- tional peril ones love for country can be so trampled by hatred for the Church.
 EMPTY CHURCHES
 Somewhat in the vein of the above the widely publicized request of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for a "re- born church" which would pro nounce ordinance, ritual, creed all non essential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church"