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Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is a tough and gallant churchman. He was a valiant center of Hungary's anti-Nazi resistance during the occupation; in 1945 he was made Bishop of Budapest. The Communists found him no easier to handle than the Nazis had; he stubbornly resisted the nationalization of church schools. In 1948 the Communists arrested him on trumped-up charges of currency-law violation and sentenced him to two years in prison. Yielding to Communist pressure, the Hungarian Lutheran Church court deposed him as bishop. After his release in 1950, he retired...
...Episcopal diocese of Chicago is thriving; its 100 parishes have an overall flock of 100,000, and its mission program has increased 100% during the past year. But, like many another Episcopal body politic, it suffers from pains in the joints where High-Churchman meets Low-Churchman. To the Highs, who run the diocese, the representation of one vote per parish, regardless of size, and the custom of prearranged block voting in conventions seems nothing but conducive to smooth and orderly management. To the Lows it seems unfair and undemocratic...
...Durham, was not an unexpected choice. His rise from curate of a Liverpool parish church in 1928 to bishop in 1952 was considered a rapid one; at 51 he is reputed to be one of the church's best public speakers, is known as a scholarly High-churchman with several books on theology to his credit. A Cambridge man, and son of a Cambridge don (a Congregationalist preacher whom he eventually confirmed in the Church of England), Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon by liberals as a threat to the ecumenical movement...
...hole in the dike. The doctor enlarges it, brings the churchman at last to confess crimes he has never committed in order to punish himself for the sins he is truly guilty of. Too late the exhausted cardinal realizes his mistake: a man may not judge himself any more than he may judge another. Defaced, the living monument is set free, "to walk the world like Cain." He goes to meet his fate, far worse than death to his human pride, with a simple courage that leaves the interrogator shaken. "It means," the doctor says wonderingly, "you've defeated...
...Church of England, whose canons against marriage after divorce form the sternest deterrent, was split on the matter. A newspaper poll of 100 Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...