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...Anglican Church's position in the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend brouhaha: "The inevitable mush-headed vicar has put in his appearance . . . There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
...into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more "devilish," says Anglican Lewis, is the verse in the beautiful 137th Psalm in which "a blessing is pronounced on anyone who will snatch up a Babylonian baby and beat its brains out against the pavement...
Henley is a peaceful English town tucked between the green folds of the Lower Midlands. The chimes in the stone tower of the Anglican Church peal over sheep meadows and farmers' plots, over royal parks and public playgrounds. The town is small; only six trains per day chuff up to the dead-end terminal to disgorge the Cockney families from Wands-worth or Chipping Norton or Stepney who come to enjoy a day on the river...
...Anglicans and Episcopalians, like most Protestant groups, do not share the Roman Catholic disapproval of birth control; contraception, they have long held, is permissible for both family planning and reasons of health. But the Anglican Communion's five-week Lambeth conference of bishops just concluded went a liberal's step further: it positively recommended contraception as a valuable liberating force in the family and in the enjoyment of sexual relations...
...woman, it found no legal way to keep Mistress Matimba out of the country. But since the Land Apportionment Act of 1941 forbids whites and blacks to live in the same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white tobacco-growing settlement of Rusape, where his father had worked, gave Patrick a job as a ?12-a-month...