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...Other Jobs. One of John's first acts as Pope was to bring Cicognani back to Rome in 1958 and make him a cardinal, overruling Article 232 of canon law, which prohibits brothers, first cousins, or an uncle and a nephew, from being cardinals simultaneously, as had previously been done by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, but to Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani the law was a constant source of worry and chagrin because it seemed to curb his talented brother. Once at a dinner a fellow prelate had jokingly said to Gaetano: "Because of you, your brother cannot become...
...jumped Canon Lewis J. Collins of St. Paul's, a passionate ban-the-bomber with no love for Dr. Stopford, who has publicly opined that nuclear war would be preferable to Communist domination. Cried Canon Collins: "The Crown, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has nominated the Bishop of Peterborough as the new Bishop of London. The nomination has been announced in the press. Now we are called upon to elect a new bishop, and custom requires that we pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our task. But we know that if we fail...
Ignoring the outraged canon, the prelates duly prayed for guidance and voted for Stopford, though Dean Matthews admitted there were "two or three abstentions." But most of them agreed with Collins' humiliating point. And the fact that he made it, observers noted, was a stout blow for the cause of disestablishment-the separation of Anglican Church and British state-whose most potent protagonist is Arthur Michael Ramsey, the new Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, July...
...Bishop of Colorado, the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Minnis: the Episcopalians were taking over again. "I was advised that nondenominational services were being held in the church, and that it was being referred to as a community church," said the bishop. "This I could not allow according to canon...
Every few years, Robert Graves, the bent-nosed Jove of Majorca, lovingly revises the canon of his verse. The present edition retains most of the poems from the 1955 and earlier collections, adds some 50 new ones, and omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among...