Word: churches
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Before the Reformation, religion had hardly been a problem, since both the Irish and the English were Roman Catholics. After it, the Church of England maintained that its members were still Catholics but refused to recognize the authority of the Pope. Both church and Crown took a dim view of the Irish Catholics, who continued their allegiance to the Pope. Both also viewed with disfavor the Scotch-Irish Protestants, considering them dissidents from the Church of England. As a result, relations between the Irish Protestants and Catholics were often surprisingly good, since both felt oppressed by England...
Owner of the vaults is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is centered in Salt Lake City, Mormons keep voluminous records and make full use of the vaults because of a little-known but highly important role that genealogy plays in their religion. In Salt Lake City this month the Mormons sponsored the first World Conference on Records, which drew some 8,000 genealogists, archivists and others from 46 countries around the world...
...Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those ancestors who had lived while the Gospel was unavailable, or who otherwise had not received the Mormon message while on earth...
...Mormons took the passage as a mandate. As a result, Mormons today not only baptize, marry, and "seal for time and eternity" living family members to one another, but perform these and other ordinances for dead family members who did not undergo them while they lived. Any male church member may be a stand-in for a male ancestor; any female church member for a female ancestor -and "ancestors" need not even be directly related. But first the ancestors must be found, and each church member is charged with tracing his own antecedents, collecting their names and putting them...
...estranged from his flock. The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, who had resigned as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis earlier this year (TIME, June 6), last week announced that he had married. The wedding took place on Aug. 2, Shannon revealed, in the First Christian Church in Endicott, N.Y., before a Disciples of Christ minister. Shannon's bride, the former Ruth C. Wilkinson, 50, had had three previous husbands. Two of the marriages ended in annulment, the third in divorce - though the partner of that union later died...