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Thus British Historian E.E.Y. Hales sets the stage for an engaging theological fantasy that would have done credit to the late Anglican author C.S. Lewis. Like Lewis' Great Divorce and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan section of Man and Superman, Chariot of Fire suggests that hell is what one makes of it -and so is heaven...
...discovered "plotters" met with suspiciously accidental deaths. Two of the accused were high government officials: Internal Affairs Minister Charles Oboth-Ofumbi and Land and Water Resources Minister Erinayo Oryema. The third was one of the most highly esteemed churchmen in all of Africa, the Most Rev. Janani Luwum, 53, Anglican Archbishop of Uganda...
...Catholic Church, with 1.8 million followers (1.4 million of them black), has gained the support of other major churches in its campaign for integration. Leaders of the Anglican Church (1.7 million) met last week with government officials and announced plans to integrate their 20 schools. Said one: "It is our Christian duty." The Methodists (2.1 million) have also announced plans to integrate their four schools. The powerful Dutch Reformed Church (3.5 million) remains strongly segregationist, however. The churches that are moving toward integration have won voluble backing in the more liberal newspapers. "For God's sake leave them alone...
Pope Paul VI himself has said it: his own office is "unquestionably the most serious obstacle on the path of ecumenism." A significant step toward overcoming that obstacle was taken last week when an official commission of Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians announced their agreement that "in any future union a universal primacy" should be held by the "see of Rome...
More Zest. By coincidence, the Church Times, semiofficial voice of the Church of England, last week underscored the remaining gap over the papacy. It ran an editorial urging the 79-year-old Pope Paul to resign and "make the way clear for a younger man with more zest." Anglican reaction to the Venice statement, however, was modestly hopeful, and Pope Paul told an audience, "We are all potentially brothers...