The gathering held at the Waldorf Hotel a week ago
to mark the attainment of a new degree of co-operation between the Christian Churches of Great Britain, Protestant and Roman Catholic, was important and impressive. The Bishop of London (whose voice is too rarely heard in the city that forms his diocese) defined the aims of the new organisation—a joint committee linking the Catholic " Sword of the Spirit " and the Anglican and Free Church " Religion and Life " Movement—with clarity, the Archbishop of Canterbury emphasised both the limits and the possibilities of the new body and Cardinal Hinsley blessed it with marked fervour. There is no sug gestion, and cannot be, of anything like reunion between Protestan and Catholics, but there is complete commitment to the fillies co-operation in ;he social sphere at home and in the work of inter national reconstruction. If the spirit which marked this publi inception of the movement can be preserved there need be lint anxiety about its future. But I hope some better name for th joint committee will be found than just Joint Committee. It is much like the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Line.
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