Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood one day last fall, Songstress Beryl Davis, British-born and an Anglican, persuaded three other well-known Hollywood girls to help out on an evening's entertainment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Her helpers: Songstresses Connie Haines, a Southern Presbyterian, Delia Russell, a Roman Catholic, and Actress Jane Russell, a nondenominational Protestant. Beryl directed the other three in a swingy version of Do Lord, an oldtime hymn. The audience gave them a huge hand, and thereby launched a new U.S. gospel quartet on a promising career...
...four children still at home), he took his papers and thoughts down to the gracious 16th century country home in Essex. There, slipping into baggy slacks, he relaxed for an afternoon of pottering about the rose garden with his wife. Next day he read the lesson at the local Anglican church, where he is vicar's warden. In his constituency Rab is universally respected and frequently liked, by gentry and tradesmen alike. "They say he's a cold fish," snorted a retired admiral who often shoots with him. "That's nonsense. Of course, he does not wear...
...Retreat from Christianity." However the Graham crusade turns out, everyone seems to agree that Britain is standing in the need of prayer. Church membership is between 5 and 15% of the population, as opposed to 59% in the U.S. Easter Sunday attendance in Anglican Churches fell from 2,261,857 in 1930 to 1,859,008 in 1950. Clergymen are as hard to recruit as churchgoers; though the Church of England needs at least 600 new deacons each year, only 380 are expected in 1954. A recent survey by the magazine Picture Post found only ten in one group...
...Catholics and Jews. The court situation, said Petitt, is "crying for help from Protestantism," but New York's Protestants are still badly handicapped in making demands by the lack of unity among denominations. ¶ Writing in the British weekly Spectator, the Rev. Michael Gedge found the concern of Anglican bishops for clerical job security excessive. Said Anglican Gedge: "Obsessed by the national mania for security in all jobs, troubled by the very natural difficulty of maintaining a wife and family on the lowest of professional wages . . . bishops are apt to insist that a house, a stipend of ?550, dilapidations...
...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...