Word: anglicans
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...mention The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes and The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants), has now had the intriguing idea of compiling brief biographies of all 263 Popes (plus 39 antipopes) from St. Peter to John Paul II. It entrusted this enormous task to J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on Roman Catholic relations. His dictionary is correspondingly scholarly, cautious, meticulous, yet still a rich mine of arcane nuggets...
...Botha's new proposals, which include identity books that all South Africans will have to carry, could mean the same old restrictions under a smoother-sounding name. Said Bishop Desmond Tutu, who last week was elected Archbishop of Cape Town, making him the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa: "I hope there is not a sting in the tail. One has to be very careful that they are not going to find another way of harassing blacks...
...Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best known Black leaders, cautioned Blacks to "be aware of the small print" in the government policy statement...
...three candidates were self-nominated by petition and received the endorsement of South African Anglican Bishop Desmond M. Tutu in a January 10 speech at Harvard...
...role would be ministering to the ministers," says Father Smith. The order set up shop in an unpretentious building ministering to the lower classes of Oxford, doing active works of evangelizing, teaching and preaching. Eschewing the traditional monastic habit, they adopted the simple black cassock of the Anglican clergy, but kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. "We were just something new," says Father James Madden, explaining the appeal of the new order. The order came to Boston in the 1870s, and moved to Cambridge in the 1930s from downtown...