Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already part of that deadly tradition. At the height of Thursday's morning rush hour, two bombs exploded in central Manchester, injuring 64 people. Most of the victims were hit by flying glass in the second blast after they had sought refuge from the first near the city's Anglican cathedral. Police, citing phoned messages, blamed the I.R.A...
...since King Henry VIII broke with the papacy 458 years ago has the normally decorous Church of England known such passion as it did last week, when it swept away by a margin of two votes the rule that only men may serve as Anglican priests. Despite pleas for prayer and calm, the controversy will echo throughout the Anglican Communion, and reverberate through all of Christianity, for years to come. On one side are those who believe that the mission of Christ's church is damaged when half its members are denied the chance to use their God-given gifts...
...last week; but the broader cultural shift has been occurring for decades and is fast gaining momentum. In permitting the ordination of women, the Church of England joined a transformation that has altered other Protestant denominations since the early 1950s and that has already been embraced by the independent Anglican churches of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S., with Australia almost certain to take the step this week...
...vote's angry aftermath, rumblings of schism erupted not only in England but all across the Anglican Communion, with its 70 million members worldwide. Outside the synod hall, while women and their male supporters cheered and hugged, angry conservatives warned that thousands of members and clergymen would leave the church in protest. "I have become more and more disillusioned with the Church of England," declared Ann Widdecombe, an M.P. and junior minister in the Conservative government who quit the church after the vote. "Its doctrine is doubt, its creed is compromise, and its purpose appears to be party politics. This...
...repercussions. The great churches of Eastern Orthodoxy were silently dismayed. The Vatican looked on with alarm, having vowed that Catholicism would never accept women for ordination. The decision in London sealed the fate of a 22-year effort to undo King Henry's legacy and reunite the Anglican and Catholic churches. "The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood," declared a Vatican spokesman, "touches the very nature of the sacrament of priestly orders. This decision by the Anglican Communion constitutes a new and grave obstacle to the entire process of reconciliation...