Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young William Purcell Witcutt was studying for the Anglican ministry some 20 years ago, he met Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month...
Bishop Wilson was happy over this return to the Anglican fold, but added: "This is nothing so unusual. In my own diocese alone, we have several Roman priests who have come over to us. But it is not our habit to advertise the conversion of a man from Rome to our faith. It is not our way of doing things...
...criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in Kensington...
...these words the bishops of the Anglican communion, assembled under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the eighth Lambeth Conference last summer, expressed their collective view of the well-known Roman Catholic rules for non-Roman partners of "mixed" marriages...
Last week, at a Roman Catholic Church in London's Chelsea, Anglican Henry Pears Fisher, 30, a barrister and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, married Roman Catholic Felicity Sutton, 26, an artist. They were married by Fr. Alphonso de Zulueta, "subject to the usual conditions of the Catholic Church," that is to say: 1) no other religious wedding ceremony could be performed; 2) any children of the marriage were to be brought up as Roman Catholics. The groom's mother and five brothers were present, but his father was unable to attend. He is Geoffrey Francis Fisher...