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...read the article on the Anglican Communion [Aug.16] with great interest, and I thought it good. There is only one factual correction that I would make. It is said that the recent measure passed by Parliament freeing church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council was Ramsey-inspired. In fact, the initiation of this measure and of the Canon Law Measures goes much farther back. In 1948 and subsequent years. I initiated the machinery of inquiry and deliberation and drafting, whether by commissions or by the convocations out of which these measures came...
...Queen Elizabeth II is a welcome member of the Anglican Communion, but does she claim to be the head of the church? In the Book of Common Prayer we read, "The Church is the body of which Jesus Christ is the head and all baptized people are members...
...religious strife during the Reformation, is today a force for Christian unity. Liturgical reform is bringing Catholic worship closer to Protestant practices. At the same time, some U.S. Protestant and Episcopal churches have introduced into worship practices once considered "popish," such as incense and eucharistic vestments at Holy Communion. Long before Protestants and Catholics succeed in resolving their doctrinal conflicts, they may find that the old, divisive differences in forms of worship have already vanished...
...branches of the Anglican Communion are proud of their independence - and last week the Anglican Congress in Toronto asked them to surrender some of it. At the close of the ten-day meeting, the delegates took home a dramatic manifesto on "Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence," composed by the Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other primates of the Anglican churches. "What we are really asking," the primates wrote, "is the rebirth of the Anglican Communion, which means the death of many old things but -infinitely more - the birth of entirely new relationships...
...manifesto, said the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, executive officer of the Anglican Communion, could be "either the biggest lead balloon or the most dramatic document in our history." It calls upon the Anglican churches to share their financial and human resources for the good of the entire Communion, and specifically to join in raising $15 million within the next five years largely for missionary churches...