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Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...Ministry. France's most famous religious center for Protestant women is a bustling combination of hospital, school, medical training center and convent at Reuilly in Paris. Best known as nurses, the Reuilly sisters run their own hospital, have a home and school for delinquent girls. A well-known Anglican sisterhood is the 100-year-old Order of St. Andrew, which runs a convalescent home and assists parish priests in West London. The ladies of the order are ordained both as deaconesses and sisters, and Mother Clare, their superior, says: "We are as near to being in the ministry...
Chalk Circles. Son of the Anglican curate of Piccadilly's fashionable St. James's Church, Vassall was a lower-echelon Admiralty clerk with talents so mediocre he had been passed over for promotion seven years running. He was also, said his defense attorney in a plea for mitigation, a man with "a weakness which has been with him ever since he came into this life." His weakness did not get him into real trouble until 1955, when he was with the British naval attache's office in Moscow. At a dinner party arranged by a Pole, Vassall...
...including secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell over,'' said an American monsignor. Replied Anglican Canon Bernard C. Pawley matter-of-factly: "If we didn't have the Schemata, how could we really understand what's going on here...
...asked Congregationalist alternate delegate-observer, Dr. George H. Williams. "No. He sat on a chair just like the ones we were sitting on. Pope John isn't setting himself up as someone above us. He is with us." The new atmosphere in Rome is, according to Anglican Pawley, "a thaw in 400 years of icy noncooperation and hostility...