Word: anglican
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Runcie, named in 1980, is universally admired as a man. But as a church leader he is faulted by both liberals and traditionalists for chronic indecision. Runcie's defenders say his cautious style helped work a miracle or two in preventing world Anglicanism from flying apart over women priests and bishops. Yet the compromises he engineered merely paper over the fact that the Anglican Communion is barely a Communion any longer. Some of its 27 autonomous national branches -- including the U.S. Episcopal Church -- ordain women priests, who are not recognized by Runcie's mother church and other branches. Nonrecognition...
Four years after Moore's death in 1951, Lewis fell in love with someone young enough to be his daughter. Chicago-born Joy Davidman Gresham, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, had two sons from a failing marriage. When she and Lewis wed -- privately, since Anglican canon law barred his marriage to a divorcee -- he was 58; Joy was 39 and already suffering from the cancer that would kill...
...speech delivered more than most veteran black leaders had expected. Popo Molefe, Secretary-General of the United Democratic Front, the largest domestic antiapartheid coalition, told the cheering Cape Town crowd that of all the white leaders, "De Klerk has taken the boldest step and is the most courageous." Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate, said the speech "has certainly taken my breath away," and his fellow campaigner, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was surprised "that he met so many of the demands...
Phillips is among the handful of married priests who work in far different circumstances. He is assigned full time to Our Lady of the Atonement Church, one of six special U.S. Catholic congregations originating with groups which, like the priests, left the Episcopal Church. In these so-called Anglican-Use parishes, ex-Episcopalians are permitted a Mass that is almost identical with one in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer...
Although the U.S. bishops appear to play down the Anglican-Use arrangement for fear of fraying ecumenical ties with the Episcopalians, this is, in Fichter's view, a "liberal" step that amounts to a Vatican "admission that + the beliefs and practices of traditional Anglicanism have been basically the beliefs and practices of the Roman Church." Fichter considers the Anglican- Use parishes a far more important innovation than married clergy. This development, he contends, "may be called the first significant ecumenical breakthrough in the relations between Anglicans and Romans...