Word: canoneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when possible, a fresh start. Gibson took to it so naturally that the bishop finally called him to enter the clergy. At 53, after a year's tutoring in theology, he became a deacon, and two years later was ordained a priest. In 1932 he was appointed a canon of the Cathedral...
...record of the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church had been better than many a pessimistic liberal churchman had expected. Merger with the Presbyterians was still distant. But delegates at Philadelphia had hammered out a brand-new marriage canon (TIME, Sept. 23). And they had elected without delay a top-drawer, liberal Presiding Bishop...
Impediments to Marriage. Provisions of the proposed canon: bishops may withdraw Episcopal recognition of a previous marriage, remarry divorced persons after one year, by referring their decision to "impediments," in the presence of which the Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects...
Under the new rule, conservative bishops may interpret the impediments strictly, while liberals may use them so as to admit many persons hitherto barred from the sacraments of the Church. The revised canon passed the House of Bishops unanimously, was sent to the House of Deputies, where its chances of passage were excellent...
...Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...