Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Presiding Bishop is 67-year-old Henry St. George Tucker, whose own see is Virginia (unlike the other provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the U.S. Episcopal Church has no diocese which goes automatically to its top-ranking prelate, like Canterbury in England, Toronto in Canada or Auckland in New Zealand). When Bishop Tucker's term as head of the church expires in 1943, he will not be eligible for re-election because of the age limit. In that same year Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, now 75, is also scheduled for retirement. Many Episcopalians expect...
...temporizing with Hitler and for ditching Catholicism's Popular Party in Italy to come to terms with Mussolini in the Lateran Treaty. "With its Right definitely Fascist and its Left timorously sentimental," says he, "the Christian reformer can expect nothing of any constructive value from the Roman Catholic communion in England...
...delegates to this first North American Ecumenical (interchurch) Conference represented every major Protestant and Orthodox communion in the Western Hemisphere, some 35 denominations in all. They passed no resolutions, came to no formal conclusions. But in their speeches and the reports of their discussion groups they affirmed a sweeping set of principles which presupposes a new society as clearly as those adopted last winter by the Church of England's great Malvern Conference (TIME...
Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic...
Bankers took over the biggest Episcopal church in the Pacific Northwest last week -Seattle's massive, unfinished St. Mark's Cathedral. So last Sunday St. Mark's congregation had an early Communion service in a Greek Orthodox church, the regular morning service at the Women's Century Clubhouse (150 present...