Word: canoneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both letters appeared in the unofficial Anglican weekly Church Times, under a covering letter by Canon John A. Douglas, former secretary of the Church of England's Council on Foreign Relations, who took responsibility for withholding them for so long. He was making them public now, he explained, in view of the Lambeth conference now being held in London (TIME, July 12) and the Amsterdam conference of the World Council of Churches, which will take place in August. Said Canon Douglas...
...Senior Canon...
...World, the Unity of the Church, the Anglican Churches, and Questions Referred to the Conference. Under these headings, the assembled prelates will discuss such varied subjects as the new Church of South India (TIME, Oct. 13), the merger proposals between the U.S. Episcopalians and Presbyterians, liberalization of the divorce canon, the doctrinal bases of Anglican unity with other churches...
...Edinburgh, delegates to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the established church of Scotland, wound up their annual meeting. They discussed liberalizing their divorce canon (to permit remarriage of repentant adulterers at the minister's discretion), but decided to think about it again next year...
Spring Cleaning. It began in 1928 with a series of anonymous letters attacking the vicar, then Canon Desmond Lloyd Wilson, for shooting at birds. Within a few months the letters had driven him from Robin Hood's Bay. His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility. One later incumbent of Saint Stephen's got more peace of mind; his wife, without his knowledge, intercepted anonymous letters which arrived for him each week...