Catholic priests have frequently appeared on television programs, sometimes discussing the Christian faith on an equal footing with Protestant clergymen. A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. The good feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now well known in England. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with commentary has been televised several times in recent months. And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C..'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells of St. Mary's.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December. It was the first time an English Primate has done this since the 14th century. English Catholics reacted to this event with moderate but real hope.

Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary school during the sickness of one of its masters; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that ``Catholics, if the present system is still in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords in the next generation''; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave.