Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-26 | Page 1 | Episcopal-Catholic Union Plan Pushed

EPISCOPAL CATHOLIC GA UNION PLAN PUSHED NEW YORK Dec Dee 26 UP UP Twentynine ty nine leaders of a movement to unite Protestant Episcopal churches in America With ith tho the Roman Catholic Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- olic church have appealed to Protestant Protestant Protes Protes- tant Episcopal clergymen for support support sup sup- port of the plan Coupled with the plea written by bythe bytho bytho tho the American committee of the church unity octave council was a criticism that Protestantism has become be be- como come bankrupt ethically culturally morally and religiously The committee statement accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied a letter to ministers by bythe bythe bythe the Reverend Franklin Joiner rector rector rec rec- tor of St. St Clements Clement's church of Phila Phila- delphia The Tho group consists of 20 Protestant Episcopal clergymen two members of religious orders and seven leven laymen