Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reid, in his letter [Feb. 21] criticizing Dean James Pike's recent defense of birth control, that "the Episcopal Church has taken a somewhat uncompromising view of the matter of depriving others of life - which is the express purpose of birth control" A resolution of the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference says in part: ". . . We cannot condemn the use of scientific methods to prevent conception, which are thoughtfully and conscientiously adopted." I should also like to challenge another statement which deprecates the sex act in marriage as a "sacrament of unity" by quoting the authority of the Book of Common...
...SAYING THAT MY DEFENSE OF BIRTH CONTROL UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IS NOT EPISCOPAL, THE REV. DAVID REID HAS APPARENTLY OVERLOOKED THE CONCLUSIONS AT LAMBETH REPRESENTING ALL THE DIOCESES OF OUR ANGLICAN COMMUNION. AS FOR FATHER TUCKER'S SOMEWHAT PERSONAL COMMENT, I AM A FATHER OF FOUR MY SELF, SO FAR. (THE VERY REV.) JAMES A. PIKE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE NEW YORK CITY...
...Wilfrid Garrett, the Anglican layman (a retired colonel) under whose chairmanship the report had been prepared, opened the debate with a defense of the report against charges of "Machiavellian plotting or external influence." He bluntly accused Dr. Frank Buchman's M.R.A. of "political-pressure-group tactics." Said the Bishop of Colchester: In addition to its "Four Absolutes" of honesty, love, purity, and unselfishness, M.R.A. was trying to add a fifth-"absolute approval or absolute praise [of its work] . . . That in all seriousness," said the bishop, "is the root of all the trouble caused by this report." Top M.R.A. supporter...
...pressure from M.R.A." When the votes were counted, the Assembly rejected the motion to return the report: the House of Bishops by 29 to five, the Clergy by 218 to 34, the Laity by 151 to 68. But having received the report, the Assembly resolved with typical Anglican caution not "to record any judgments whether upon the merits or upon the demerits of this movement, remembering that every church and every movement stands always under the judgment of Almighty...
...load at 6 a.m." It came three days earlier than expected, and was accompanied by a ban on all public gatherings, political or religious, of twelve or more people. "There is reason to apprehend a feeling of hostility," explained the Minister of Justice. But Father Trevor Huddleston, the gentle Anglican missionary who serves Sophiatown's needy, defiantly held his regular church services...