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...Philip's is a large, solid-looking brick church which stands, jammed close between neighboring houses, on the edge of a slum neighborhood. All but a handful of its 3,707 members are Negroes, about 60% of British West Indies (and thus Anglican) stock. There is nothing dramatic about St. Philip's rise to first place; its growth has been solid and steady under the rectorship of the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop...
...many clergymen objected that Roman Catholic morality on this subject seemed to be no morality at all. At his diocesan conference, the Right Rev. Alfred E. Morris, Anglican Bishop of Monmouth, said that the choice should be made by the mother herself, "not in the agony of childbirth, but calmly and deliberately, as soon as pregnancy has been established ... A woman has an absolute right to say that, if her own life or that of her unborn child must be sacrificed, she chooses to die that the child may live...
...Said Anglican Dean Walter R. Matthews of St. Paul's Cathedral, London: "The Pope's teaching would be regarded by most normal people as inhuman ... It seems to me that the death of the mother means the loss of a valuable personality and is certain to cause pain and misery. On the other hand, no one knows whether the child will live. One eventuality is certain, the other problematic." In a front-page editorial, the weekly Church of England Newspaper called the doctrine "inhuman, callous and cruel...
Your footnote to the Sept. 24 article on the Vatican makes the statement that "Roman Catholic theologians believe that the Monophysite theory can lead to the destruction of the very basis of Christianity . . ." Not only Roman, but all orthodox Christianity-Eastern, Anglican and Protestant as weil-follows the Council of Chalcedon in rejecting Monophysitism...
...hopping mad) is presented each week by a triumvirate of devout but underpaid editors, aided by outside articles on politics, philosophy and the arts (for about a cent a word) from such contributors as Catholics Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, Sean O'Faolain, non-Catholics Franz Werfel, Dorothy Thompson, Anglican W. H. Auden. The editors can print whatever they like because they have no publishing angel, no official ties with the Church...