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For the Pope to take such a step shows, I think, that the old tight control the Church has so successfully exercised over its members since the Reformation, is beginning not only to break down, as it has been for the last 30 years, but also to be completely swept away. This would appear to be substantiated by the divided loyalties in the Church in Czechoslovakia especially, as well as in other Central European states, where the Church is obviously and actively antagonistic to the government. For good or bad the Church has lost its former unity of purpose. In other words, the faithful are beginning to doubt—and doubt is fatal to an institution based on the principle of infallibility.