Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with a rise in divorce, the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church in 1946 liberalized its marriage canon; bishops got authority to decide whether or not divorced people could be remarried in church. Faced with a similar divorce rise, the synod of Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church has decided to do just the opposite. Last week a new, more stringent set of marriage regulations went into effect for 18 million German Lutherans...
...Wisconsin and Rome, then went to Accra on the Gold Coast as a missionary, where he learned three Gold Coast dialects to add to his fluent French and Latin and his working knowledge of Italian and German. With a year and a half off to become a licentiate in canon law, he stayed on in Africa for twelve years...
Feeney said he had not gone to Rome because he was already informed of the charges against him "as I am entitled to be under canon...
Substitute for God. While the school is failing so wretchedly, however, so is the Church. For today, says Canon Bell, Americans have come to regard the Church as the "promoter of a respectable minor art, charming if it happens to appeal to you, its only moral junction to bless whatever the multitude at the moment regards as the American way of life ..." Indeed, "the Church has become to most of its adherents a substitute for God," a place for socials and smokers and innumerable Good Causes...
...best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is." The trouble with the Common Man is that "he has not learned to see life in all its possible richness . . . has lost contact with that which is greater than himself, from which (or Whom) he might gain courage to escape the crowd...