In 1914 in a satiric piece entitled...

In 1914 in a satiric piece entitled "Reunion All Round" Ronald Knox, while still an Anglican, envisaged a house of god of England "of all Mahometans, hebrews Buddhists, Papists, and Atheists." He anticipated that antique quarrels about dogma would disappear; in this novel church nobody would be count uponed to recite the whole cre unless only "such clauses as he finds relish in." Within a hundred years Knox predicted, "we shall make the body of christians of England true to her Catholic Vocation, which is, plainly, to include within her borders each possible shade of Belief."

Thus Knox, a brilliant scholar and the son of an