Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation and the Rev. Canon James P. Breeden of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Boston are scheduled to speak at the service. If King does come, he will replace Breeden...
...true of many other plays in the O'Neill canon, the lines of The Emperor Jones do not always read well; but, again as elsewhere, a really fine player can make them convincing. Here, James Earl Jones is better than fine; he is nothing short of magnificent as he moves, drawing on his majestic pipe-organ of a voice and his resonant belly-laugh, from bluster and swagger through anxiety and fright to exhaustion and eclipse. (The role, by the way, bears fruitful comparison with that of Macbeth...
Since the 17th century, the Church of England has been divided between High Church Anglo-Catholicism and Low Church Evangelicals. Low churchmen oppose any changes in Anglican canon law, last codified in 1604, and not much altered since, that would permit more "Popish" vestments and ceremonies. But though considered illegal, the alb and the chasuble are worn by priests in a fourth of the Anglican churches in Britain. The intent of the vestments measure is to make legal, though optional, practices that have been widespread since Victorian days...
Protestant Warnings. Such ecumenical experiments may well prove one way to end a continuing source of Catholic-Protestant conflict. Catholic canon law requires that the children of all mixed marriages be brought up as Catholics and that the Catholic partner work "prudently" for the conversion of his spouse. It does not even recognize the validity of any mixed marriage that is not celebrated before a priest. Despite such off-putting rules, roughly one-fourth of all Catholic marriages in the U.S. and Germany involve a non-Catholic partner-and there are thousands of other Catholics who, breaking canon law, marry...
...Canon law has insisted on priestly celibacy since the Middle Ages, although Eastern-Rite Catholic priests may marry before their ordination. But within the past 13 years, Popes have from time to time approved the ordination of a few convert Protestant ministers for whom leaving their families would be a heartless cruelty...