Word: canoneer
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Sole Exception. Until last fall, the canon (law) of the Episcopal Church had been clear, strict and uncompromising-stricter and less compromising in application than the Roman Catholic canon. No divorced person-with the sole exception of the innocent party in a divorce for adultery-could ever again be married in the Episcopal Church. If he or she chose to go through a form of marriage in some other church, that was a matter for his own conscience; the church would never recognize it as a true marriage...
Then, at the triennial general convention in Philadelphia last fall (TIME, Sept. 23), the canon was "liberalized." Under the new rules, divorced church members who wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain specific conditions, that the remarriage was justifiable. As a brake on the possibly sentimental leanings of individual bishops, a commission was set up to review (but not reverse) the bishops' decisions, and assemble a body of precedents...
Grave Fears. Now, with two Episcopal clergymen marrying divorcees (one of them with two living husbands), it looked to the opponents of the canon as if chaos had come indeed. The Right Rev. William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...
...action in these two dioceses is a dishonor to the Episcopal Church and it arouses grave fears as to the effects of our recently adopted canon on marriage. Does this mean that through the wrong interpretation of the canon by some diocesan chancellors and the weakness of some bishops we are now to have a number of ecclesiastical and moral Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standard of marriage, in the church...
This may be, as Henry Wallace insists, the Century of the Common Man-but is that just as dandy as Henry implies? How good is the Common Man? Last week, in the New York Times Magazine, Episcopal Canon Bernard Iddings Bell, who has been around colleges most of his life, indicted the Common Man-and his so-called education-in words meant to disturb the complacent. Wrote...