Word: archbishop
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...latest author did just that, launching an unprecedented attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, since 1980 Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million-member Anglican Communion (including U.S. Episcopalians). The Archbishop, a decorated tank commander in World War II who earned the name "Killer Runcie," was characterized in Crockford's as a spineless churchman who evinces no "clear basis for his policies other than taking the line of least resistance on each issue...
...Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate...
...strategy has been an abysmal failure. When Runcie became primate, a paltry 2.7% of the population regularly attended Anglican services; slightly fewer do so today. Bennett's mistake was not in raising such unpleasant matters in public, with or without his name attached. It was in assuming that an Archbishop of Canterbury -- or any other individual -- could, merely by standing firm, reverse the powerful tide of change that has caused such anguishing problems for the Church of England...
...furor over the Archbishop of Canterbury' s leadership results in a cleric' s shocking suicide. -- U. S. Catholics, condoms and AIDS...
...explanation for Carpenter's lack of offensive production may have had something to do with the man defending him--Ralph James. You see, the two were teammates at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, N.Y. two years ago. And James remembered some of Carpenter's moves...