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This week and next, more than 1,300 bishops, priests, deacons and laymen of the Anglican Communion are gathering in Toronto to measure and discuss the health of their church. They find it in an ironically precarious state: it is prospering almost everywhere except in England...
...worship at St. James' Cathedral and in discussion at the Royal York Hotel and the Maple Leaf Gardens, a primacy of honor during Toronto's Second Anglican Congress* will be accorded to the purple-cassocked archbishops of Canterbury and York. But delegates from English dioceses will be lost in a sea of faces from Nigeria, Tanganyika, Japan, the U.S. and elsewhere. Today the 18 branches of the Anglican Communion exist in 80 countries-a greater geographical span than that of any major church but Rome's. The world's 42 million Anglicans worship...
...delegates were clearly impressed by the changes wrought in Roman Catholicism during the Papacy of John XXIII. Anglican Bishop Oliver Tomkins of Bristol, the Conference's presiding officer, declared that there was now the possibility of "a positive and fruitful dialogue" between Rome and other confessions. The Roman guests agreed, and Toronto's Father Gregory Baum even admitted that there was no dogmatic barrier to Rome's joining the World Council-although such a move now might be misunderstood by both Catholics and Protestants...
...aides, the Rt. Rev. John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, stirred up a row with his book Honest to God, arguing that Christianity needs a new idea of God. And another Southwark clergyman, the Rev. John Pearce-Higgins, recently took arms against some of the 39 Articles-the declaration of Anglican faith. He called the 400-year-old Articles "in the nature of a theological fossil" and announced that he assented to them under protest...
...Bishop Stockwood has more serious goals than mere shock. Three years ago, he started a night-school seminary to produce worker-priests, and in September will ordain the first class of men engaged in ordinary trades who will thereafter also double as clergy. This challenges the strong tradition that Anglican clergymen should be gentle Establishmentarians from the best schools. And if communicants will not come to church, Communion, Stockwood decided, could go to them; his priests now bring "kitchen-sink Communion" to homes; one such priest, when he needs Communion bread, just nips around to the local baker for dinner...