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...Protestant?" Earl Alex ander of Hillsborough, a Baptist, demanded of the Archbishop of Canterbury during debate in the House of Lords on a measure to permit more elaborate priestly vestments at Communion services. "I am a Protestant precisely in the way the Prayer Book and the Anglican formularies use that term," replied the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey...
Many Anglican clergymen, High and Low, felt that the vestments issue had been blown up beyond proportion. Canterbury himself said: "In some churches, I wear no more than a black scarf"-leading Punch to take gleeful note that the archbishop had also called for understanding and forbearance for wearers of topless bathing suits. The Rev. Nicolas Stacey, rector of Woolwich, strongly deplored the concern with trivialities. "Our work is hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes...
Among the 2,500 mostly learned and lordly Roman Catholic bishops around the world, English Archbishop Thomas d'Esterre Roberts, 71, is an independent spirit who feels free to put churchly propositions up to the measure of his own reason. He has no use for pomp, and to discourage people from kissing his episcopal ring, he jokes, "I carry it in my back pocket...
Last week he was at Seattle University, wreathed in a cloud of Salem smoke, sitting at a desk littered with matchbooks, letters and Agatha Christie novels. He would rather have been in Southern California. But the arch-conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, banned the liberal Roberts from lecturing there. Roberts took it philosophically: "Cardinal Mclntyre is in charge and is entitled to his own views as to what is expedient and what...
...Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop-President Makarios insists that the new arrivals are for the most part Cypriot students returning from their schools in Athens-though it is not clear why the students arrive at night and head for the hills in trucks...