Word: canonic
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...Becket attempts-without much psychological or historical depth-to show the love-hate relationship between the King and the servant-friend who turns against him in order to serve the church. Fry sought to concentrate more on Henry than on Becket and to illuminate the interplay of law-civil, canon, moral, divine. Says Fry: "Henry was essentially religious, also blasphemous, also superstitious, devoted to law yet also in himself anarchical." Having done careful research. Fry tried to tell the whole story from "the proud years when all events were Henry" to the King's final, ignominious defeat...
...Cambridge mathematics don (a Congregationalist preacher who joined the Church of England the year before his death and was baptized by his son), Ramsey studied at Repton. His headmaster: Dr. Fisher, who still calls him "my boy." He was ordained in 1928, twelve years later became canon of Durham Cathedral and professor of divinity at Durham University. Another dozen years and he was Bishop of Durham. Five years ago, he was appointed to the No. 2 post in the Anglican Church: Archbishop of York. He has been married 18 years, has no children. A nonsmoker, he carries cigarettes...
...longer in use are Maid of Arts and Mistress of Polite Literature-used in the 19th century when it seemed unseemly for women to be Bachelors. Gone also are Bachelor of Beauty Culture and Doctor of the More Humane Letters. Somebody also abolished the Bachelor of Both Laws (canon and civil) and the Doctor of Either Law (same meaning...
...Edward O. Miller, 45, of Manhattan's prestigious St. George's Church on East 16th Street announced from his pulpit last week that he refused to read the 4,000-word pastoral letter prepared by the Episcopal House of Bishops at its meeting in Dallas last month. Canon law demands that within one month after it has been received, a pastoral letter must be read in each of the denomination's 7,500 parishes. But the "sheer mediocrity" of the "ecclesiastical jargon," protested Protestant Miller, made it necessary for him to disobey...
Both the American Constitution, under which the Puerto Ricans live, and their own Commonwealth Constitution of 1952, insist on the separation of religious and political powers. And Cardinals Spellman and Cushing in this country both opposed the Puerto Rican hierarchy's stand--although it is specifically provided for under canon law. These considerations, however, are secondary to the mandate of the popular vote...