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...grandly symbolic site of England's Canterbury Cathedral, the mother see of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Pope John Paul II in 1982 joined Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie in launching a bold venture. Following 16 years of ecumenical talks, the two church leaders inaugurated a second round of negotiations to examine whether Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism could come to recognize each other's priests and bishops. Such recognition would end 4 1/2 centuries of separation between two major wings of Christianity and pave the way for reunion...
Meeting in Larnaca, Cyprus, last week, the primates who lead the 27 independent branches of world Anglicanism released a letter that the Pope had sent to Archbishop Runcie last Dec. 8. In it, John Paul responded to decisions at the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican and Episcopal bishops. Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris...
Apparently, female bishops are the last straw for John Paul. Referring to the talks begun in 1982, he declared that the Anglican move to women priests and bishops "appears to pre-empt this study and effectively block the path to the mutual recognition of ministries." Though the Pope's opposition to women in the clergy is well known, this was his chilliest statement on the ecumenical implications...
...Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa. But Nigerian Anglican architect Fola Alade insists, "If Jesus is the Son of God, how can he be just...
...plausibility, and it is a minor one at that. Hoffmann cannot intercede in the proceedings; he is just another spectator along with the readers. Davies does not need spooks or disembodied souls to demonstrate that even the most mundane, realistic events can be steeped in magic. Simon Darcourt, an Anglican clergyman, a professor of Greek and the secretary of the Cornish Foundation, believes "that everybody had a personal myth," that people's lives unfold in accordance with invisible but implacable patterns. Despite his extensive education, Darcourt sees limitations in a logic used as "a means of straining out of every...