Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patronesses for the event, the last of the 1938 social season until the Jubilee in spring, are: Mrs. Walter B. Canon, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. William E. Hocking, Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. James B. Munn, and Miss Rose Sherman...
...Jersey City, 100-odd parishioners of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church petitioned their Bishop, Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, to remove their priest, Monsignor Ignatius Szudrowicz. They cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...
...Last month Bishop Huston was in court in Seattle to defend his right to oust a rector, Rev. Charles Stanley Mook, without taking counsel with his Standing Committee (TIME, Oct. 8). Last fortnight the court ruled that the Bishop had violated civil and canon...
...Seattle last week Superior Court Judge Howard M. Finley soberly heard churchmen expound the quality of a bishop's "godly judgment." Since the Episcopal Church drew up its constitution in 1789, its Canon 42 had been brought into civil court only once before-in New Jersey in 1893. Tortuous and hedged with ambiguities was the question Judge Finley was to decide: had Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston the right to oust Rev. Charles Stanley Mook from Trinity Church without taking counsel with the Standing Committee of his diocese...
...singers, dissolved the Women's Auxiliary and the Daughters of the King-all because the women opposed him. But of most concern to the court and the Episcopal Church were the opinions of five of Bishop Huston's clergy. Unanimously they agreed that he had exceeded his canonical authority. Said Very Rev. John D. McLauchlan, dean of the Seattle Cathedral: "A bishop can't do anything without the consent of his Standing Committee. Personally I feel that bishops should have much more power than they do-but they don't." Dean McLauchlan and his colleagues agreed...