Dr. Stephen S. Wise yesterday issued a reply to charges levelled against him by ten Catholic University professors for allegedly attacking the Catholic Church in the course of a sermon on the case of two Protestant ministers who were ousted from their pulpit.
Pointing out that the Catholic professors denounced his sermon as a “wanton attempt to spread distrust of American leadership in world affairs and to stir up hatred and dissension among the American people,” Dr. Wise declared that his remarks were quoted out of context and charged that the professors’ “disingenuous methods can not but leave them open to the suspicion that they seek to silence those of all faiths whose views on foreign and domestic affairs may differ from their own.” Replying specifically to the charge that he was attempting to spread distrust of American world leadership, Dr. Wise declared: “My humble but long and consistent efforts to sustain American world leadership on the highest level and in behalf of American of all races and creeds can serve, I am confident, as the best refutation of this malicious allegation.”
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