Tainted"

"Tainted"

A prime talking point of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Group has been that it works equally well in the framework of any Christian church--not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote his clergy informing them that no Catholic might join the Group.

According to the Cardinal's secretary, Groupers on the continent "made propaganda use" of a laudatory letter which they said was written by Dr. Kinsley but which he could not recall writing. But his condemnation of them rested on theological rather than moral grounds. Wrote he: "The Group Movement is so tainted with indifferentism. i.e., with the error that one religion is as good as another, that no Catholic may join in such a movement so as to take any active part therein or formally to cooperate therewith."

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