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Later at a press conference, the bishop explained that it was not Harris' "near-Catholic trimmings and trappings" he objected to, but his departure from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "In the Church of England there is a considerable degree of liberty allowed to the clergy in interpretation of doctrine and in ceremonial practice. We are both a Catholic and a Reformed Church. That means to say that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses...
...newspapers erupted in praise and censure of the bishop. Romanesque Anglican Harris packed off to a small hotel in Devon, "desolate" at his dismissal. He could not and would not become a Roman Catholic, he said. But he still had a puckish message for "certain" people in the Church of England: "Up the Pope...
...from the vote that tentatively approved the plan, pending formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only been possible by a barnacle-like adhesion to what they have...
Repercussions of the Rhodes meeting were felt even in Rome, where some newspapers printed exaggerated accounts of an informal gathering between Orthodox delegates and the Roman Catholic observers in the early stages of the meeting. Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which would be most involved in any reconciliation talks, turned the damper on by describing the meeting at Rhodes as little different from other contacts in past years between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic scholars. He denied that the Vatican was planning a full-dress conference with Orthodox leaders...
...There was no use two bulls going in there and locking horns," explained the farm-raised Fullmer, who does not let his profession prevent him from being an elder in the Mormon Church...