Word: archbishops
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...monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well," said Dame Rebecca West. "If anybody is being honored, it is the human race." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, touched on the same theme in his wedding address, when he said that "all couples on their wedding day are 'royal couples' " (see box, page...
King Juan Carlos of Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
Excerpts from the address delivered at St. Paul's Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie...
...change was backed by Archbishop Runcie, but its main proponent was Bishop John Taylor of Winchester. Said he: "The rush is on, and if the brake hasn't held, we have to do something else. We are dealing with a social epidemic." British reaction was generally favorable, but the decision does add to the long list of problems complicating reunion with the Roman Catholic Church...
...government newspaper declared that the new man "enjoys the sincere and warm approval of the state." The subject of all this attention was a short, stout farmer's son named Jozef Glemp, who was named Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Roman Catholic Primate of Poland. "I want peace and unity for the whole nation," he promptly declared...