Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westminster's warning chimed with the joint statement recently given by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (TIME, Nov. 1, 1943). Last week still another prelate chimed in. In Chelmsford, Anglican Bishop Henry Albert Wilson found "the landslide in sexual morals" so immense that he feared Christianity "is hanging by a thread in this country to-day." What particularly upset Bishop Wilson was a proposed Government measure which would permit magistrates' courts to handle divorce cases, now reserved for higher courts...
...naming Griffin, who has been a Bishop only five years, His Holiness skipped over 19 other prelates. The Pope was looking ahead: like the Anglican Church's leader, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Mgr. Griffin is a liberal on social questions. A leader in the progressive Catholic Social Guild, he has backed Sir William Henry Beveridge's postwar Social Security plan: "We need it. We want to get it going as soon as possible...
...pick up, he hoped for a living and leisure. He acquired a linotype machine and an operator, upped his paper's size from four to six pages, turned out job printing for Whitehorse's few stores. On the side he published a quarterly for Canada's Anglican Yukon Diocese. One year he won a Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association award for the best paper under 500 circulation. Best of all, he did all this in an easy five-day week...
...result in "an unpleasant and unedifying discussion." He suggested that the Bishops adopt neither report, but authorize the Commission to "continue its negotiations" with the Presbyterians. His resolution also stipulated that nothing definite could be done without "the counsel of the Lambeth Conference." This is a meeting of worldwide Anglican Bishops held every ten years. At his desk across the aisle, the Anglophile Manning nodded his grey head approvingly...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...