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...John's Episcopal Church in Savannah, founded in 1840, is the largest and richest parish in the diocese of Georgia, which encompasses the southern half of the state. It has also been steadfastly segregated. But the Episcopal Church's Canon 16, as amended last October at the General Convention in St. Louis, bans the exclusion of any member from worship in any parish on racial grounds. Rather than obey the ruling, St. John's is leaving the Episcopal Church...
...Resign." Georgia's Bishop Albert Rhett Stuart tolerated St. John's segregated worship until the revision of Canon 16, which by last January led the other six white Episcopal churches in Savannah to open their doors to Negroes. Hoping to forestall a struggle, Bishop Stuart in March summoned Risley to his office, urged him to yield, suggested that he could lay the blame on Stuart. "I'll resign as a minister before I'll allow Negroes in St. John's," answered Risley...
...Easter Sunday four Negroes, accompanied by Atlanta's Father John Morris, white executive director of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, were barred by ushers from entering the church. Two days later, St. John's vestry agreed that they had the choice of obeying Canon 16 or disassociating from the church, decided to put the matter to a vote by the 1,400-member congregation. By 785 to 75, with 125 absentee ballots still to be counted, the members voted to secede. After the vote, Father Risley submitted his resignation from the ministry to Stuart...
...where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed long enough to allow the child to be born. The situation progressed very little until the 1940s when a few U.S. courts began allowing plaintiffs to recover for damages suffered before their birth under the ancient canon that where there is a wrong, there must also be a remedy. These scattered rulings, plus the compelling evidence of modern medical research, started the new trend...
...Serious Division." Unlike male deacons, for whom the office is normally a one-year prelude to ordination as a priest, deaconesses have not been al lowed to distribute Communion or administer sacraments to the sick. Pike believes that he can change this rule because of a word-switch in canon law made by the church's General Convention last year; women now are "ordered" deaconesses by a bishop, instead of "appointed." The convention also dropped the canonical provision that deaconesses must be single or widowed, but Mrs. Edwards says, "I have no desire to marry again...