Word: anglicans
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...duly prayed for guidance and voted for Stopford, though Dean Matthews admitted there were "two or three abstentions." But most of them agreed with Collins' humiliating point. And the fact that he made it, observers noted, was a stout blow for the cause of disestablishment-the separation of Anglican Church and British state-whose most potent protagonist is Arthur Michael Ramsey, the new Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, July...
...actual fact, the law has long been largely ignored. Throughout Britain each year. 5.000 people take their lives and another 5.000 attempted suicides are reported to the police. In recent years less than 10% of those who failed have been prosecuted. Last week, with the approval of the Anglican Church and both major parties. Parliament finally declared suicide-or attempting it-no longer a crime. At the same time Parliament added a footnote aimed mainly at survivors of suicide pacts: abetting another's suicide is now punishable by up to 14 years in jail...
...intolerance got reinforcements too. When a former Congregational chapel on Smethwick's main street was converted into a temple to serve the Indian Sikhs who have recently settled in the town, there were fresh mutterings of alien influences. The Anglican vicar of St. Michael's and All Angels Church lamented in his parish magazine that a building which had long been used for Christian worship was now "being renovated, decorated and adapted as a temple for black people to preach what we have always spoken of as heathen rites...
Divines from the East. The enthronement of the 100th Archbishop was a splendid ceremony. Never in history had the Anglican Communion rallied such a massing of the cloth as turned out at the 800-year-old Canterbury Cathedral to honor the new Primate of All England. More than 1,000 prelates walked in a mile-long procession to the clamor of bells, their many-colored robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among...
...officer, Anglican Communion...