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Seven-Year Grind. Anglican Witcutt became a Roman Catholic, and resolved to study for the priesthood. He persuaded Catholic authorities to waive their rule requiring converts to spend two years in the church before entering the seminary, and within a month of his reception into the church, plunged into a seven-year seminary grind at Oscott...
...William Purcell Witcutt's mouth clicked shut like a snap lock when British reporters tried to interview him six years ago on his reasons for quitting the Roman Catholic Church and rejoining the Church of England. This week the lock opened smoothly with U.S. publication of Anglican Witcutt's Return to Reality (Macmillan; $1.65)-a well-written attack upon Roman Catholic doctrine...
Congregationalist Chamberlain gets on well with her Anglican husband. "All it means is that we have two sermons to chew over on Sundays, instead of one," she says. "And of course we have some terrific arguments. My husband quite often starts off, 'Call yourself a minister?' Of course he considers that anyone who hasn't been 'properly' ordained, with the laying on of hands, has not really been ordained. Fortunately, we both like to argue . . . But sometimes he's rude about extempore prayers, or he'll say, 'Call yourself a church...
Whether or not Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint...
...performed this season by the Boston Symphony and is scheduled to be played at Tanglewood, where he will teach composition this summer. He also has four recent commissions: a solo cantata, The Idyll of Theocritus (Louisville Orchestra); Symphony No. 3 (Boston Symphony); a Piano Concerto (Juilliard School) and an Anglican Mass (for Kent School...