Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal confusion surrounding these proposals, an attempt has been made to cite, as having made "similar proposals," great world figures, even including His Holiness Pope Pius XII. All these men-like this Government, like all responsible and thoughtful leaders in the free world, statesmen or churchmen-are sincerely anxious for international agreement allowing effective control of all armaments...
That is why there is so little left of it. Pilgrims through the centuries, drinking water from the Nanteos Cup to heal their ills (especially hemorrhages), have bitten off little pieces to increase the efficacy of the cure. Not only Roman Catholics but Anglicans and Free Churchmen seek healing from the relic, and letters are regularly received asking permission to drink from the cut-glass bowl in which the cup is embedded...
...Some churchmen are trying to spread the notion that the Chinese Communists are really being kind to Christians. A fortnight ago, Anglican Bishop K. H. Ting of Chekiang appeared at the World Council of Churches meeting in Hungary (TIME, Aug. 13) to say that Christian churches in Communist China are free. The Chinese people, said Bishop Ting, have come to regard Communist rule as "an act of God and a demonstration of His love." Last week brought further evidence of just how "free" Christianity is in Red China. After keeping him prisoner for five years, the Communists released Henry Ambrose...
Every bishop and vicar knew what he meant. There is much latent sentiment in secular Britain against the state-linked church (it showed recently during the Princess Margaret-Captain Townsend controversy). If Parliament turned down the churchmen's divorce clause, then the bishops and vicars would have to choose either to defy Parliament or to back down, thus inviting the disestablishmentarians to go to work. Disestablishment would mean loss of state protection, possibly some lands, and the privilege of crowning England's monarchs...
...churchmen retreated-all but the brand-new Bishop of London, High-Church Montgomery Campbell. "As everybody knows, Parliament cannot legislate against the known mind of the electorate," he said, "so it comes back to us . . . The church has to be firm in her witness to the God-given theory of marriage, an indissoluble union of one man and one woman. Therefore we have to stand to our resolution that there can be no remarriage in church where one or other of the parties has a partner living...