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...stirred up tremendous ill-feeling here. They are a misguided group and certainly an irritating one. I was delighted that you placed your review of this incredible slush under "Organizations" and not "Religion." These people dream of substituting M.R.A. for religion whenever possible, and they woo the Catholic and Anglican clergy shamelessly...
...England, the Anglican Church Times put the problem on to boil again. "It is common knowledge that, in the present state of England, many parents bring their children to the font to be 'done' with scant knowledge of what is really involved . . . Statistics show that roughly two-thirds of the children baptized in infancy are never brought to confirmation...
...London, Britain's dagger-eyed, razor-brained Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, baptized an Anglican, decided at a ripe 67 on a change of church. Kneeling in London's (Jesuit) Immaculate Conception Church, Dame Edith was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Said Convert Sitwell humbly: "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy...
Last week some 9,000 Baptists from 60 countries drove through London's congested streets, past hundreds of pubs and dozens of state-related Anglican churches, back to historic Royal Albert Hall for the first time in 50 years. There, as the Golden Jubilee Congress of the Baptist World Alliance opened, they learned that one prediction had come true beyond all expectations: since 1905, the number of Baptists has soared to more than 20 million, in one of the most phenomenal growths ever experienced by a major denomination...
Nobody really expected that it would come to that, especially since the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of Anglican orders. In any case, intercommunion at present allows members of the Church of South India only limited privileges and local bishops may use their discretion in granting even these. The question of full intercommunion is not expected to become a serious question for about two decades...