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...depend on one doctor's views." Instead, he recommended legislation so that "a patient suffering agonies of useless pain from an incurable disease could slip away in peace and dignity with the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee. I myself would be willing to give Holy Communion to the patient and to be present with the doctor concerned so as to share the responsibility." It is "nonsense," he added, to hold that death "should be 'left to God.' Do we leave birth to God?" Replied Roman Catholic Bishop George P. Dwyer of Leeds: "A doctor...
...worldwide Anglican Communion has a new top prelate in a new top job. To streamline its scattered activities in a jet-shrinking world, the Archbishop of Canterbury last week announced that he had picked an American: the Right Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash...
...Bayne's new and different post, created at the request of the Lambeth Conference, consists of two secretaryships: of the Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy and the Lambeth Consultative Body. In the first, he will coordinate the missionary activities of 15 constituent self-governing churches of the Anglican Communion (total membership: 40 million). In the second, he will supervise the lines of action initiated by Lambeth Conferences during the ten-year intervals between them. In addition, he plans to make his London office (he moves in after Jan. 1) a clearinghouse for theological studies. "The thing that draws...
...Some bilious editorial apologete will darkly ask: 'How does it happen that from the volunteers among our 80,000 military pilots, not one Catholic filtered through the Space Curtain?' 2) Some communion breakfast orator will harangue the Knights: '. . . Columbus et al. were of our faith. Are the Niñas, Pintas and Santa Marias of the cosmic seas to be piloted solely by heretic helmsmen?' 3) A Catholic educator will demand a look-see at the 566 'Who am I?' questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted...
Decked in the miter and cope presented to him by Japan's Anglicans in 1948. in which he had crowned Elizabeth II, the Archbishop presided over Communion for 4,000 delegates, ancl, gave them a sermon. Said the Archbishop, reminding Japan-and the world-of the last war: "None of us dares forget the years of war. so full of evil and hateful memories.'' When the service was over, everyone got an obento -a box lunch of fish cakes, eggs, white rice and sesame seeds...