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Anti-Catholicism came over on the Mayflower. It was part of the doctrinal baggage that the founding Protestants - whether separatist Puritan, Scottish Presbyterian or Cavalier Anglican - brought with them. Almost every colony harassed "papists," and some excluded Catholics entirely; priests were liable to arrest in Massachusetts. The Dudleian Lectures were established at Harvard in the early 18th century partly to expose, as their founder said, "the Church of Rome as that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament." In New York in 1741, two Catholics were executed, one for being a "professed...
Runcie is the 102nd in the long line of prelates. The Archbishop of Canterbury is by no means an Anglican equivalent of the Pope. But because he presides over the historic center of Anglicanism, his attitudes and actions have influence around the world...
...outgoing man ("not an introverted ecclesiastic," according to friends). He had great popularity as Bishop of St. Albans near London, and is known for his teaching, administrative and diplomatic skills. He is also a High Churchman who has taken a definite stand on the most emotional issue in worldwide Anglicanism: he opposes the ordination of women as priests, at least in England. Trevor Beeson, European correspondent of America's liberal Christian Century, wrote of Runcie's view, "It is difficult to see how leadership of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion can be exercised from...
...deliberations, reports TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, the commission quickly settled on a short list of candidates. The most controversial was Canada's forceful Anglican Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...
Before becoming a bishop, Runcie spent a decade heading a theological seminary. He also has led the Anglican negotiations with the Eastern Orthodox churches on reconciling doctrinal differences. Runcie favors ecclesiastical remarriage for divorced persons, which the Church of England rejected last year. People who want to marry again, he believes, may even be more serious the second time around...