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...March 21 article on Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend once more focuses our attention on the logical absurdities which Anglicanism gets itself into these days. Elizabeth, as "head of the church," cannot officially disprove of Margaret's marriage to a divorced man (presumably because such marriages violate the law of God), although, according to other Anglican authorities, she might approve of it as "big sister" (presumably because such marriages do not violate the law of God). Nor, in this same anomalous situation, can the Archbishop of Canterbury approve the marriage (presumably because such marriages violate...
...Reid, in his letter [Feb. 21] criticizing Dean James Pike's recent defense of birth control, that "the Episcopal Church has taken a somewhat uncompromising view of the matter of depriving others of life - which is the express purpose of birth control" A resolution of the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference says in part: ". . . We cannot condemn the use of scientific methods to prevent conception, which are thoughtfully and conscientiously adopted." I should also like to challenge another statement which deprecates the sex act in marriage as a "sacrament of unity" by quoting the authority of the Book of Common...
...SAYING THAT MY DEFENSE OF BIRTH CONTROL UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IS NOT EPISCOPAL, THE REV. DAVID REID HAS APPARENTLY OVERLOOKED THE CONCLUSIONS AT LAMBETH REPRESENTING ALL THE DIOCESES OF OUR ANGLICAN COMMUNION. AS FOR FATHER TUCKER'S SOMEWHAT PERSONAL COMMENT, I AM A FATHER OF FOUR MY SELF, SO FAR. (THE VERY REV.) JAMES A. PIKE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE NEW YORK CITY...
...best measured against the pressures of human weakness. In The Power and the Glory Graham Greene gave a classic demonstration of the ordeal by inner torture that follows when a priest who is a weak man falls from grace. Now Ronald Hardy, a young (35) Englishman (and an Anglican) has written a first novel that establishes him as Greene's No. 1 disciple...
...pressure from M.R.A." When the votes were counted, the Assembly rejected the motion to return the report: the House of Bishops by 29 to five, the Clergy by 218 to 34, the Laity by 151 to 68. But having received the report, the Assembly resolved with typical Anglican caution not "to record any judgments whether upon the merits or upon the demerits of this movement, remembering that every church and every movement stands always under the judgment of Almighty...