Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a dozen years as a priest and bishop in Okinawa, was the bishop supervising American Episcopal churches in Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City. He is the U.S. bishops' representative on the worldwide council of Anglican and Episcopal churches. A friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, Browning has invited the South African black activist to his Jan. 11 installation as Presiding Bishop. Last week's Anaheim meeting ushered in the Browning era by voting for divestment of holdings in firms that do business in South Africa...
...abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought before a magistrate for participating in the school boycott, the authorities claimed that the younger Tutu had uttered an obscenity and slapped a 14-day detention order on him. When the Rev. Allan Boesak...
...also seemed uncertain of how to deal with Desmond Tutu, the black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg. When Tutu refused to join a group of leading South African clergymen at a meeting with Botha, the White House publicly scolded him, without referring to him by name. Said Speakes: "A refusal by any party to meet and negotiate only worsens the prospects for understanding in South Africa." A senior State Department official explained that the U.S. has been urging the South African government to negotiate, and "we also have to make the same point with influential leaders like Tutu." But then...
Although several autonomous branches of the worldwide Anglican communion, including the U.S. Episcopal Church, have admitted women into the clergy, the Church of England, the parent body, has refused to follow their example. Leaders in the mother church have feared that such a move would end all hope of future reunion with Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, and prompt wholesale defections of Church of England traditionalists...
...publication only now by Pym's literary executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests, the warmth of a musquash coat, the bedtime balm of Ovaltine, the ultimate taste test -- does one take China tea or Indian...