Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopted son. His own widowed father (Gielgud) is comically austere in his affections; when his son returns to their London home after 15 months, he looks up in unhappy surprise and says, "Oh, dear." The Flytes, by contrast, are warm and charming. Their only fault, in Charles' conventional Anglican eyes, is their obsession with their exotic, un-English Catholic religion...
Gerald Phizackerley, an Anglican archdeacon, stood last week near a rocky outcrop, surrounded by the heathclad hills and moors of the English Midlands, reciting a nursery rhyme...
...article "A Historic Barrier Drops" [July 20] has a photograph of Bishop John Bernard Taylor of St. Albans, but Bishop John Vernon Taylor of Winchester was the main proponent of the Anglican Church's new divorce policy...
...conference was founded in 1958 to help Christians cooperate in spreading faith and furthering social justice in Africa. Under its previous general secretary, the Rev. Canon Burgess Carr, a forceful Anglican from Liberia, the fledgling ecumenical group won considerable prestige. Among other things, Carr helped bring an end to Sudan's 17-year civil...
...Western Europe: two for every five marriages (a 1979 total of 163,000 in England and Wales). Even the church hierarchy has been affected. Last month Suffragan Bishop Stephen Verney of Repton was married to a divorcee, setting off an untidy flap among conservative churchmen. At present, many Anglicans are remarried in civil ceremonies and are then blessed privately by a priest. Other couples resort to Methodist marriages, lie to Anglican clergy about previous marriages, or simply live together...