Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in 1534, Henry VIII broke with Rome and created the Anglican Church because he wanted to get rid of a wife and the Pope would not let him. Now, nearly 1,000 former Episcopalians, breakaways from the American branch of Anglicanism, have won permission to sign up with Rome again, and under special conditions. They had broken with the U.S. Episcopal Church, mainly over its recent decision to ordain women priests. Among the dissident Episcopalians were 65 ministers, many of them married. But how could they become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. and still stay married...
...announcement set off some sniping among Episcopalians about "stealing other people's sheep." A number regarded the decision as a setback in the negotiations to bring the Anglican and Roman churches together again; Rome had not consulted much with the Anglican or the Episcopal Church on the issue. But, said an Anglican spokesman in London: "I don't see any unusual ecumenical problems being created...
From an ecumenical standpoint, the most provocative aspect of the matter was the National Conference of Bishops' statement that these converts could become Catholics while keeping "some elements" of the Anglican tradition. Just what that might mean has yet to be worked out. To some the phrase seemed to hint at their retaining the use of the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Vatican sources told TIME, however, that the Book of Common Prayer could "scarcely be used in the Mass." But the concession might refer to such services as morning and evening prayer, which are not part...
Compared with his ascetic friend Robert Mugabe, who is a trained and erudite philosopher, the stocky Tekere has always cut the figure of a rough-and-ready, sometimes recklessly outspoken black nationalist with little patience for ideology or gradualism. Last month Tekere scathingly dismissed two top Anglican churchmen-one of whom had spoken against the shooting down of an Air Rhodesia airliner by guerrillas last year-as meddlers who "have no place with us." Even in public, he never hesitated to call his old tribal and personal antagonist Joshua Nkomo "useless and redundant...
...Anglican priest, Tekere was born in the fertile Umtali district of eastern Rhodesia in 1937. He was educated in mission schools and as a boy served at the altar of Salisbury's Anglican cathedral. His first job was in a religious bookstore. In 1959, at age 22, the young Anglican was jailed briefly for distributing black nationalist literature. Imprisonment only intensified Tekere's political zeal, and in 1963 he became one of the founding members of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). By the time he was jailed a second time, a year later...