Word: anglicans
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...Which are both received by the laity in Protestant and Anglican churches. Since the Middle Ages, the consecrated wine is consumed only by the priest in Roman Catholicism, although the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council now allow it to the laity on special occasions such as nuptial masses...
...modern religious community. In deciding unanimously that unorthodox believers qualify as conscientious objectors under the Selective Service Act, the court dealt at length with the nature of a Supreme Being, and produced a ruling studded with references to the Vatican Council, Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, and Anglican Bishop John Robinson's Honest...
...regular, short Anglican funeral service proceeded, the first hymn to be sung was John Bunyan...
...other developments, Blake said, may have diminished the prospect of merger, and he warned that "church union delayed is church union denied." One is the tendency of U.S. churches to become involved in their own worldwide confessional relationships. The Episcopalians, for example, are committed to help weaker Anglican churches abroad through a "mutual responsibility" program that was proposed at the Toronto Anglican Congress...
...clerics. He was elected one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches in 1961, will help preside at the council's meeting this week in Nigeria. But at home Niemöller is more and more regarded with the same kind of pained dismay that Anglican clerics reserved for the late "Red Dean" of Canterbury-and for a not wholly dissimilar reason. He is now a militant but myopic neutralist, whose angry blasts against "warmongering" always seem to be addressed to the West and never to the Communist world...