Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger-wagging form, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, defended himself from the outcry that arose when he invited (as a guest at next July's Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops) bearded Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic...
...flexible term, usually critical, for the British ruling class's ruling class, e.g., the Archbishop of Canterbury and all Anglican bishops, certain peers with long bloodlines, top civil servants, Etonian Tories, staunch monarchists, and Times leader writers, all of whom together constitute what has been called "the old-boy circuit" or "the stately domes of England...
These days King Freddie is being even more nettlesome than usual. This time his adversary is the Church of England, which has made half a million converts in Uganda, has long been tied to the forward-looking elements in the country. King Freddie, who was raised as an Anglican and crowned by the Bishop of Uganda himself, wants to divorce his attractive Queen Damali and marry her more vivacious older sister Sarah. He is annoyed that Anglican ecclesiastical law forbids it, has been hinting he might become a Moslem...
...added sternly that the News editor who passed the piece had been "brought to book." The editor, a bewildered Texan named Elizabeth Pengelly, explained that she had been "disarmed" by the fact that the editorial was written by a usually reliable contributor, the Rev. Vibart Ridgeway, an Anglican priest and scion of an old and distinguished English family...
...Just lately there have been numerous cases of parents bringing their babies for baptism aged a year or even 18 months. This is entirely wrong and contrary to the church's teaching." So, in his parish bulletin, writes the Rev. Horace Willson, Anglican rector of St. Mary's Church of Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. "It is only reasonable to expect a child twelve months of age to be frightened and resist the priest's attempts to pour water over its head. Some of the recent administrations could be likened to an all-in wrestling match, with...