Word: canonical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bocassini, a sugar refinery laborer whose first wife died during a Cesarean operation, unwittingly disagreed with Roman Catholic canons. In accordance with canon law young Dr. John Corbit who had charge of Mary Bocassini's case, should, if necessary to save the child's life and soul, have delivered the child by Cesarean section. This would inevitably have caused the death of the mother and jeopardized young Dr. Corbit's promising career...
...triennial convention nine years ago the Protestant Episcopal Church appointed a Commission on Marriage & Divorce to whittle down its Canon 41, which stoutly enjoined Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common...
Crying that this would place unprecedented discretionary power in the hands of bishops, the High Episcopal organ, The Living Church, asked with heavy sarcasm: "Why not repeal the Canon altogether and set up a new one: 'Communicants of this church shall not ordinarily be permitted to have more than one husband or wife at the same time?' " Divorced New York Episcopalians, it soon appeared, would find it hard to remarry even if the amendment were adopted. Grumped their Bishop William T. Manning, vacationing in Mt. Desert, Me.: "It is the report of a very one-sided committee. . . . Those...
...four canons living within the Close of Silbury Cathedral, The Canon was short, paunchy, 60-year-old Carmichael, who after 24 years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make...
Said Catholic Canon Alberto Onoindia of Valladolid Cathedral...