Word: canon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious departure from Roman Catholic canon law, which holds marriages between non-Catholic valid as contracts...
Protestant churchmen were outraged. When police refused to take the boxes from his church, Canon Walter Simpson of St. Bartholomew's cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...
...Maynard Smith, the latest interpreter of this great event, is a canon emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral, but he writes as a historian first and an Anglican second. Henry's history has been finecombed by eminent scholars of the past generation (notably the Englishman A. F. Pollard and the American R. B. Merriman),and Canon Smith has no advantage over them in sources or in scholarship. From the vantage point of the mid-20th Century, however, he can see more ironies than they could in the Reformation carried out by bluff King...
Cannon & Good Sense. "His permanent achievements," Canon Smith writes, "were, for the most part, due to afterthoughts. He had a particular object and obtained it; the object had then to be justified by postulating a general principle, and, when the general principle was applied, unforeseen results ensued." In Henry's case, the results were serious and the rationalizing process monumental...
This week, while the Melishes consulted their lawyers, Bishop De Wolfe prepared, as provided by canon law, to render "his Godly judgment...