Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ottawans got to know William Congreve a little better. Two nights in a row last week, John Gielgud's company presented the Restoration dramatist's Love for Love at the Capitol Theater. Halfway through the first act, two clergymen in the first-night audience got up and walked out. (Asked a member of the cast next day: "But surely they knew what they were coming to see, didn't they?") The Ottawa Journal called it "the sexiest, bawdiest and most outspoken comedy-drama that ever unfolded publicly on an Ottawa stage."* Said the Ottawa Citizen more mildly...
...week publicly undertook to "bow our head in shame for our own church." Their bitterness and shame were intensified because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean...
Grave Fears. Now, with two Episcopal clergymen marrying divorcees (one of them with two living husbands), it looked to the opponents of the canon as if chaos had come indeed. The Right Rev. William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...
...that the action of the two bishops . . . 'shows complete disregard for the Christian teaching as to marriage.' How can Dr. Manning be so sure as to what the Christian teaching is? The best modern New Testament scholars are far from agreement. And there are millions of Christian clergymen in all Protestant churches who disagree in toto with Bishop Manning. A little more scholarship and a little less weeping would be more wholesome...
...holds euthanasia (putting an incurable patient to death) to be murder. Supporters of euthanasia, including many doctors and a few clergymen, are aware that the law must be changed before euthanasia can ever be legal. To find out what the U.S. public thought, Gallup pollsters asked the question: "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request...