Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complicated Canon. Hedley is known at Mills as a courtly, gentle man with a lively interest in a number of things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where...
...seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
...doubt that in the whole of our canon law there is a more complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes to be a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church without losing his membership in another denomination, or (as in Hedley's case) who intends to remain a minister and function as such in his original denomination...
...Anglican Slater, 63, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has spent 17 years in the Far East and is canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, the center is an old dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars...
...tiny (pop. 185) village of Consolation in France's Jura Mountains, Canon Pierre Bretillot (who is both priest and mayor) dedicated a new tax office last week. His prayer would have pleased Matthew, the onetime tax collector, as well as collectors of internal revenue anywhere in the world...