Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy English stockbroker, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, Guy Clutton-Brock planned to enter the Anglican ministry, then decided to devote his life to works as a layman. His works came to include rehabilitating prisoners in England, youth counseling in postwar Berlin, three years as a farm laborer and market gardener. Ten years ago, he was called to St. Faith's Anglican mission in South Rhodesia. His job: to help revive St. Faith's 10,000 acres of impoverished soil, bring African workers back from the towns to live on the land...
...Anglican Bishop Cecil Alderson of Mashonaland backed him up. Said he: "Clutton-Brock has taken the only course open to an honorable man to take...
...penetrated the bone-littered wastes of Central Asia during the past 125 years. Many of them stayed there, with their heads cleaved from their bodies by the bloodthirsty rulers of Bokhara, Merv, Kokand and Khiva. The most fascinating of these adventurers was one Joseph Wolff, a disputatious Jew turned Anglican missionary, who set out in 1843 to rescue two British officers held captive in Bokhara...
...bills accurately mirrored the feelings of many settlers, but strongly repelled others. The Salisbury Bar Council in emergency meeting condemned ten encroachments on political liberty in one of the bills. The Federation's top clergymen, including the Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury, wrote a joint letter declaring: "We believe that no emergency or danger of emergency can justify injustice...
...local bishop can simply refuse to accept the declaration as valid, and the wedding is off. There have been some cases of priests who left the church and tried to marry Protestants (one notable example: the late, reactionary Cardinal Segura's onetime private secretary, now an Anglican). These ex-priests never get permission for a civil ceremony, but Protestant pastors have worked out a stopgap solution: a private Protestant ceremony performed before a notary public. This has no legal validity whatever, only serves to put the ceremony on record...