Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Archbishop Ramsey argues that "there are plenty of people in the country who are determined to go on making a fight for right moral standards, and these recent troubles have stirred us to do it." Many of England's clergymen seem to have a more flexible attitude toward the fight than the archbishop does. Almost every week London's press can headline the words of an Anglican cleric seeking to make his faith "relevant" to modern life, who jovially expresses toleration for homosexuality, divorce or adultery. An Anglican bishop recently suggested that "we stop using the word...
...parish after parish across England, many of these young clergymen are experimenting liturgically with "kitchen Communions" in homes and midmorning family Communions on Sunday followed by parish breakfasts. "I could take you to 30 parishes in this diocese," says one Birmingham priest, "where church is a going concern and people are aware that something is going...
Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...Stockwood has more serious goals than mere shock. Three years ago, he started a night-school seminary to produce worker-priests, and in September will ordain the first class of men engaged in ordinary trades who will thereafter also double as clergy. This challenges the strong tradition that Anglican clergymen should be gentle Establishmentarians from the best schools. And if communicants will not come to church, Communion, Stockwood decided, could go to them; his priests now bring "kitchen-sink Communion" to homes; one such priest, when he needs Communion bread, just nips around to the local baker for dinner rolls...
...Clergymen have demonstrated that no man can be a Catholic, a Protestant or a Jew and at the same time permit discrimination because of race. This is the real significance of the demonstration. In the past week, there have been similar demonstrations at Gwynn Oak, and others are planned. They will continue, I hope, until all Baltimoreans, Marylanders, and Americans realize that racial discrimination is a matter of conscience, not simply politics...