Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scandinavians are reaching out in other media. Ingmar Bergman's tortured film canon, topped by The Silence, has built a worldwide movie cult unequaled by any Scandinavian since Garbo's girlhood. Half a dozen Swedish singers, from Kerstin Thorborg to Birgit Nilsson, commute between Stockholm's Royal Opera and Manhattan's Metropolitan. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, author of a classic study of the U.S. Negro and his problems, who went on to become executive sec retary of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe, is currently writing what promises to be the definitive work...
...only say that I am appalled that Canon du Bois has chosen to make an issue out of the President's Communion [June 19]. Certainly the law of the Episcopal church supports Canon du Bois; yet, it seems to me that in this special case, at this crucial time, for this critically important man who carries so many of the burdens of the world on his shoulders, charity should have tempered the canon's judgment, urging him to keep a godly silence...
...Challenges. Canon law authorized Mclntyre's move, but he is such a strong-minded man that it was clear from the first he would brook no challenges. A year ago, when Swiss Theologian Hans Küng spoke to Catholics all over the U.S. on reform in the church, conservative Cardinal Mclntyre forbade him to talk at U.C.L.A. He does not like such liberal Catholic magazines as America, The Commonweal and Ave Maria, and so he has banned them from his archdiocesan seminary. Mclntyre was one of 19 cardinals who last year signed a statement protesting to the Vatican...
Writing in the monthly American Church News, Canon du Bois admits that the President "is undoubtedly receiving Communion at Episcopal altars in good faith and in sincerity." Nonetheless, he argues that priests who have admitted non-Episcopalians to Communion make it difficult for the clergy, "who wish to maintain the church's law and discipline but who do not wish to make an issue of this at their altar rails...
...When cremation was legalized in northern Europe during the 19th century, the Catholic Church suspected an atheistic plot to discredit belief in resurrection. In 1886 the Roman Inquisition declared that Catholics who cooperated in cremation were guilty of sin, and the prohibitions were repeated in the 1917 revision of canon...