New Society

England's Established Church has little to do with nonconformists on the one side, Roman Catholics on the other. But last week the Church of England's two primates, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, made history by jointly signing a letter to the London Times with Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon on the Mount, the standards quite clearly presupposed a new society:

1) Extreme inequality of wealth should be abolished.

2) Every child, regardless of race or class, should have equal opportunities for education suitable to his or her peculiar capacities.

3) The family as a social unit must be safeguarded.

4) The sense of a divine vocation must be restored to man's daily work.

5) Resources of the earth should be used as God's gifts to the whole human race.

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