Word: archdeacon
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...attracts only about 3% to regular weekly or monthly services. Empty churches, dwindling attendance: it looks like a church in serious decline. So the media interest over the early retirement of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, 66, and the intense speculation about his successor surprised many churchmen. Says former Archdeacon of York George Austin: "I had just written an article saying there was now no interest left in the church at all. I had to change...
...says her priest name is Mother Bernadette Mary. And, she adds, her exact title is now archdeacon. "Basically, I do all the things that other priests do, allowing for the fact that I have two children," she says. "Obviously my children come first. So I do what I can. [But] I don't do marriages. The reason I don't do marriages is that people tend to want me to do them because I'm a pop star. It's the Al Green syndrome--everyone wants Al Green to marry them because he's Al Green...
...established class by a great display of public grief for a figure who has died. The funeral takes on the quality of a demonstration. One such occasion was the funeral of Cardinal Manning--an unlikely public hero, you would think, if you read about him today: the old Harrovian Archdeacon of Chichester who converted to Rome and became a man who in his rigid religious orthodoxy was almost more Catholic than the Pope...
Gerald Phizackerley, an Anglican archdeacon, stood last week near a rocky outcrop, surrounded by the heathclad hills and moors of the English Midlands, reciting a nursery rhyme...
...Teological Proof. Here the infinitely complex structure of the universe is used to argue the necessary existence of an intelligent Designer. In English Archdeacon William Paley's famous analogy of 1802, anyone who sees a watch is forced to assume the existence of a watchmaker who made it. The marvels of nature's design, from snowflakes to developing embryos, are comforting buttresses to faith for many people...