Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important major theatrical undertaking now going on in this country is the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy at Stratford, Connecticut. At last, Shakespeare is leaving the printed page; the man who bequeathed us the largest canon of great plays is beginning to get the respect and service he deserves from both the theatrical profession and the American public at large...
...Clearly the Archbishop has lost faith in mankind." Many churchmen agreed. "Singularly futile, stupid and un-Christian," snapped Dr. John S. Thomson, moderator of the United Church of Canada. "There is no justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would cease to be a Christian if he thought "that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is callous to the amount of suffering in the world ... It may be in the providence of God that we should...
Furthermore, had the Archbishop actually said that God might "will" man's end in nuclear war? No, declared Toronto's Canon H. R. Hunt, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Archbishop had simply noted that God's providence leaves man's fate up to man. Said Canon Hunt: "Perversity in human conduct and wanton disobedience of divine law result inevitably in the destruction and death of sinful man. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he reap...
...demonstration persuaded Peru's church hierarchy to attempt an explanation. In a nationwide broadcast, Jesuit Father Ulpiano López, an expert in canon law, declared: "The validity of marriage depends exclusively on the mutual consent and surrender of the two persons who give themselves to each other in love and trust." If consent is obtained by means of falsehoods or threats, the act of marriage is invalid. He cited the case of a man who was compelled to marry under threat of death. The church can declare a marriage null if it finds a condition invalidating...
Slater previously lectured on logic and the philosophy of religion at Rangoon University, Burma, and gradually became known as an authority on Theravada Buddhism. He is honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal...