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...Book of Genesis." The resultant loss of his faith in Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel writes from Oxford that he wishes to become an Anglican priest. And Chatterway's reappearance, as an old friend of his wife's side of the family, has further disrupted Nettleship's domestic routine. The scandalmonger comes calling, along with Egg and a young artist who has been working on the old poet's portrait. Horace does not like...
...world's 825 million Roman Catholics and 65 million Anglican Christians (known in the U.S. as Episcopalians), the pursuit of church reunion has been a lengthy and delicate exercise. In 1966, Rome and Canterbury authorized talks leading to the formation of a commission to examine the religious schism that originated so dramatically in the marital frustrations of King Henry VIII. In 1982, on the eve of Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Britain, the commission issued a report saying that "substantial agreement" was possible on the major issues stemming from the 16th century rupture. The Pope and Archbishop...
Last week, however, Rome provided a strong signal that reunification is still very much a live topic and unveiled a specific suggestion on how to proceed. The information came in a four-page letter from the Pope's top ecumenical adviser, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, to the 24-member Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which is studying reunion. The Cardinal indicated that the Vatican is prepared to end centuries of refusal to recognize Anglican priests as legitimate, a stance that was formalized in Pope Leo XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change...
...last-minute addition to Botha's 27-minute speech, the proposal was dismissed by critics as a bit of charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners...
...have overseen his life. Under their influence, Cornish has lead a decidedly bizarre existence. His parents essentially abandon him at the beginning of this century to be raised in a miniscule Canadian town by his Catholic great aunt who bootlegs Catholicism to him against the wishes of his resolutely Anglican father...