Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath Cardinal Mercier's roof at Malines have been held sundry conversations relative to the dim possibility of a merger between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. Vigilant patriots of England have pestered the Archbishop of Canterbury (Randall Davidson) for "explanations." Dr. Davidson said nothing. Consequently he has been denounced as a "traitor," "idolater," "conspirator." But last week he finally stated that the conversations amounted to nothing. The uproar subsided...
Union, said the Archbishop, was to be found in another direction-union between the Anglican Church and the non-Episcopal churches in Great Britain. Conferences at Lambeth Palace (residence of the British Primate) between Anglicans and Nonconformists (dissenters) are steadily progressing. "Results" will soon be published...
Disestablishment of the Church of England by the Labor Government is a subject of conversation. It would deprive the Anglican Church of its privileged position. Its Bishops would no longer sit in the House of Lords, nor would the Archbishop of Canterbury rank before all the peers of the realm after the royal princes...
...Some Anglicans would welcome disestablishment. It might tend to quicken the spiritual life. They say that the Protestant Church in Ireland and the Anglican Church in Wales have not lost financially by disestablishment...
Next--would the church be justified in changing the Creeds? Now the Anglican Catholic Church (commonly known in this country as the Episcopal Church) bases its whole Catholic claim on two facts; its acceptance of the Creeds, and its Apostolic Succession. It would scarcely be reverent to pull down this structure by changing the Creeds, as the structure was founded by Christ. Neither would it be wise, for the Church would then fall into the seething whirlpool of two hundred and fifty-six protestant sects; which, as they become more modernistic, become more agnostic and farther from Christianity...