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...Harrimans were married in 1930, not long after her divorce from wealthy Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and Harriman's divorce from Kitty Lawrance Harriman (who died in 1936). Each has two children by the earlier marriage. *Son of an Anglican bishop, home-tutored until he was 14, Montgomery bulled his way through London's venerable St. Paul's School as a distinguished athlete, went on to Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, where he graduated 3Oth in his class...
...annual conference of South Africa's Methodist Church, the Rev. Joseph B. Webb, Bishop of Transvaal and Swaziland, lashed out at those "Apostles of Apartheid" in the Dutch Reformed Church who provide the Nationalist government with "gospel authority" for its persecution of the blacks. South Africa's Anglican Church joined in with an even stronger attack on two new racialist bills: one designed to take the teaching of black children out of the hands of the Christian missions, the other threatening to cancel the leases on churches whose pastors deplore Apartheid. Said Anglican Bishop Richard A. Reeves...
...story on the Evanston World Council Assembly and the Archbishop of Canterbury . . . Few men so well epitomize in their own persons the ideals and spirit of ecumenical Christianity, and none moved more helpfully through the Evanston Assembly. But TIME'S stated reason for its choice-that "the worldwide Anglican Communion [is] the exemplary ecumenical church"-is not wholly convincing. If what TIME means is that the Anglican Communion embraces extremes in doctrine, polity and politics, that is a fact . . . On the other hand, if TIME is echoing the claim, so dear to many Anglicans, that the Anglican Communion...
...year he must preside over week-long sessions of the Church Assembly, which is the parliament of the church. Between sessions he must approve every significant action taken by the church. He is in charge of worldwide missionary work and is senior member, though without direct authority, of the Anglican Communion (estimated membership: 40 million), which calls on him for advice and counsel. He also serves as spiritual adviser to the royal family...
...life, not as a theocratic doctrine: they have no church, no God in the Western sense. U Nu is tolerant and approving of other "true" religions, e.g., Christianity. He insisted upon paying the expenses of Roman Catholic priests on a recent pilgrimage to Rome; his troops gave the Anglican Bishop of Rangoon, the Right Rev. George West, a safe-conduct across the lines into the rebel Karen districts so that he could administer Communion to the villagers...