Word: archbishop
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Everything has been ordained by tradition and now you want to change it all, complained Vatican Prefect of Sacred Ceremonies Archbishop Enrico Dante. The prelates of the Second Vatican Council were indeed talking of change, and change in the basic area of the church's public worship...
...bishops, for both practical and theological reasons. They believe necessary reform efforts are constantly blocked by a Vatican Curia that is insulated from the problems of non-Italian Catholics. The liberals also want to play down the hierarchical, juridical concept of the church, under which, says one French archbishop, "the bishop is reputed to be a sort of prefect, priests functionaries, sacraments residues of magic rites, religion a group of laws to which one suits himself because of a feeling of exterior discipline and from which one escapes without understanding their true value, as happens with the laws...
Americans who view the Primate of All England as the final personification of the formidable, ceremonious English Establishment are unlikely to be disillusioned by the sight of the 100th Archbishop, who this week begins a 23-day tour of the U.S. A huge, shambling man, with fierce tufts of white hair and shaggy eyebrows jutting from his massive head, Arthur Michael Ramsey, 57, looks constantly at the ready to don cope and miter for the crowning of a Queen or the intonation of a weighty pronouncement. "When you see him in the Abbey, enrobed and preaching on Christmas...
...both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury," joking that the longer title "seems to give the people more for their money...
Ramsey is more and more concerned about public issues, as though heeding such critics as Author J. B. Priestley, who wrote recently that the Church of England "spends too much time dressing itself up and not enough time dressing other people down." The Archbishop fights capital punishment, advocates general (though not unilateral) disarmament, spoke out vehemently in the House of Lords against the bill to slow nonwhite immigration from other Commonwealth countries. Last week the church proposed the establishment of a National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw...