Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never on Sunday. Since the Church of England is an established church, each parish church is bound by law to hold Sunday services, whether anyone attends or not. But to former Bishop of London John Wand (now canon of St. Paul's) and London's Archdeacon Oswin Gibbs-Smith, a third possibility presented itself: "Why not a church that could be there for the daytime City workers?" Sixteen of the 40 churches were set up on a new basis and called "Guild Churches"-closed on Sundays, open on weekdays, with emphasis on the lunch hour. A number...
...reply, the high-church Episcopal executive director of the American Church Union. Canon Albert J. duBois, announced that within a few days "a clear call will go out" from his organization "for Catholic and Orthodox Christians to assume positive leadership of reunion movements." Said he: "The Episcopal Church has achieved a unity with the Old Catholic Churches and the Polish National Catholic Church on the basis of agreement in the truth, and it seems likely that we shall enter into the same type of unity with the great Philippine Independent Catholic Church and, perhaps, with the Lusitanian Church of Portugal...
...that they would never fight for king and country, many were dying in the Battle of Britain. Some articulate Britons guide C.N.D. Among them: Angry Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 88; fiery Socialist M.P. Michael Foot; Transport and General Workers' Union Boss Frank Cousins; and C.N.D. Chairman Canon Lewis John Collins, 56, the politicking precentor of St. Paul's who has proclaimed as the C.N.D.'s goal "converting the Labor Party effectively and then seeing to it that it gets into power with a non-nuclear foreign and defense policy...
...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...