Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your report that I had announced I was leaving the Episcopal Church "partially because it is a 'dying institution' and partially because Bishop Myers refused to officiate" at my marriage [May 23]: as to the first, I had said that "the declining of the church as such has no bearing . . . on whether a sincere, thoughtful person should remain in it or not"; but that it was the reasons for the decline which persuaded me. As to the second, I had stated: "Bishop Myers . . . granted me a favorable judgment as to my marital status in the eyes...
...Bishop Myers' action-three days after our Episcopal marriage-publicly calling for a boycott of my functioning as a clergyman-a cruel and uncanonical step unremedied after four months of approaches to him by various responsible clergy and laymen, singly and in groups-which was the straw that broke the camel's back...
Diane and I would not want to be thought of as leaving the church simoly because it is declining at an accelerating rate, or on a petty, personal ground-Bishop Myers' changing his mind about officiating (after telling us to invite the clergy who would assist him), when a fine priest, and a dear friend, was perfectly happy to marry us, acting under Bishop Myers' written judgment as to my canonical marriageability. We had sound reasons for leaving the church, but they are not the two you noted; nor would we want others to leave on such grounds...
...Facto Recognition. Ojukwu treated the men correctly however. Three lawyers defended them at their trial, they received food forwarded by the Vatican and were visited by the Rt. Rev. Godfrey Okoye, Roman Catholic bishop of Port Harcourt. Ojukwu, however, refused to discuss their plight with ENI but insisted that the Italian government -which does not recognize Biafra -speak in their behalf. He got his way when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Pedini flew into Owerri to negotiate, thus giving Biafra at least temporary de facto recognition that irritated opposing Nigeria...
...personally with offerings of cash. The United Presbyterian Church invited him to address its General Assembly last month, but pointedly took issue with his manifesto's threat of violence to obtain compensation from the churches. Even before the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church rejected the demands, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines called Forman's manifesto "calculatedly revolutionary, Marxist, inflammatory, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian." The Forman plan, added the General Board of the Disciples of Christ, implies "an ideology we cannot accept and a methodology we cannot approve." Forman also got a polite but unequivocal rebuff from...