Word: communionism
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...question will now be asked: What goal does the Episcopal Church have in view for the ecumenical movement? . . . Does the Anglican communion envisage a united church in terms which embrace all non-Roman churches, or does its enthusiasm for unity derive from the expectation that the Episcopal Church will itself absorb all other churches into its own ecclesiastical system . . . The attitude revealed at Philadelphia will be interpreted as a disclosure of the sectarian isolationism of the Episcopal Church. . . . [Its] prestige . . . as a leader in this great [unity] enterprise has been damaged, if not forfeited...
...whirlwind one-month, 10,000-mile U.S.-Canada tour, on which he visited the White House, got honorary degrees from Columbia, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that his public utterances had averaged 1.95 per diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted the shot, captioned it "A Picture We Never Thought We Should...
...Lambeth Conference is the meeting at London's Lambeth Palace, about every ten years, of all the archbishops and bishops of the Anglican Communion. There have been seven; the last, in 1930, had 307 bishops present. The Conference intended for 1940 was postponed because...
...thoughts: "Britain, as much as any nation of the modern world, has learned the Roman lesson and followed in the Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people...
...Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...