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...Economist proclaimed its majority perhaps a little too quickly. Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Anglican Church, described Tito's government as "vowedly anti-religious," declared that all Christians are "bitterly aware of the sufferings" in Yugoslavia, and trusted that Eden would tell his guest how "very strong and very widespread" this feeling...
Duncan, a devout Anglican, thinks the issue is one where conscience combines with patriotism. Out on bail, he explained his mission to newsmen: "If the [racial clash] becomes a straight fight of black against white, South Africa is doomed...
...portrait of a saint," writes Clare Boothe Luce, "is only a fragment of a great and still uncompleted mosaic-the portrait of Jesus." Although a sizable portion of Christendom (including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox communions) honors the saints as man's intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...
...Augustine, the 5th century Bishop of Hippo, was Christianity's first great philosopher. Writes Anglican Rebecca West: "His works are the foundation of modern Western thought . . . He took as his subject matter a certain complex of ideas which intrude into every developed religion and are present in Christianity also; the idea that matter, and especially matter related to sex, is evil; that man, wearing a body made of matter, living in a material world, and delighting in the manifestations of sex, is tainted with evil, and must cleanse himself before God; and that this atonement must take the form...
Theodore Wedel, wife of the new president of the House of Deputies: "We Episcopalians will grow up eventually." At other meetings throughout the week, the delegates: Heard an opening sermon in Boston's Old North Church by the world's No. 1 Anglican, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Warned Dr. Fisher, making a rare appearance on television:*"The essentially Christian virtues of moderation and toleration are assailed by extremisms and fanaticism all over the world, by doctrines of 'apartheid,' by demands that 'what we want is therefore our right, and we must have...