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Poland has some 24,000,000 Roman Catholics, nearly 75% of its population. Like most east-European nations, it has also an autonomous Orthodox Church and a Greek Catholic or "Uniat" Church, in communion with Rome but using its own form of Mass. Poland's Ukrainians are about equally divided between the Orthodox and Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead...
Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while 50,000 Methodists knelt and partook of the Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened...
Last week Episcopalians were re-examining the nature of Communion, with special reference to a rubric in the Book of Common Prayer which reads: "There shall be none admitted to the Holy Communion, until such time as he be confirmed, or be ready and desirous to be confirmed." On its face, this rubric would seem to bar non-Episcopalians from taking Communion at Episcopal altars. Last winter the issue arose when churchmen of numerous faiths attended an "open Communion" service in the National Cathedral in Washington (TIME, Jan. 31). Last month, under Anglo-Catholic leadership, about one-fifth...
...Liberal Evangelical conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, well-beloved onetime Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, went into the history of open Communion. Pointing out that the controversial rubric dates back to 1281, when there were no Reformed churches, Dr. Robbins rested the Liberal Evangelical case upon the fact that canon law makes no reference to open Communion, that the rubric was intended to apply only to members of the church...
...this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is the Episcopal Church. Last autumn the Episcopal General Convention invited Presbyterians to join in accepting a broad statement of faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, the sacraments of baptism and Communion (see p. 54). Last week the Presbyterian Assembly, almost unanimously, voted acceptance. Commissions of both churches have already begun exploring tactics...