Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...jamboree," cried the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York. But he need not have feared; the Second Anglican Congress in Toronto opened last week with more than its share of bite and fight. Billed as a family gathering of the 18 autonomous churches that make up the Anglican Communion, the Toronto Congress amply demonstrated that the family today is one, big, and far from happy with its place in the world...
...loosely knit Anglican family is drawing closer together and beginning to see the need for more action in common. In his unity-centered keynote address, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Communion, called for a new sharing of missionary responsibilities. "Let African and Asian missionaries come to England to help to convert the post-Christian heathenism in our country and to convert our English Church to a closer following of Christ," he said. The archbishop may get his wish some day. At a meeting of an advisory council of Anglican prelates, the churches worked...