Word: concordats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard that Generalissimo Francisco Franco wished to expel, as hostile to his regime, Tarragona's Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, who during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME, Dec. 26). Moreover, Franco wished to re-establish the 1851 concordat, which would enable him to appoint Spanish bishops, whereas the Vatican favored something more up-to-date. Franco appeared to be dunning the Church for payment for having protected...
...Concordat "will sow dissension . . . where now there is peace and harmony . . . between the more Protestant-minded and the more Catholic-minded members of our communion...
...Concordat would tamper with belief in the episcopally ordained priesthood, dear to the Episcopal Church, "as to at least two-thirds of all Christians in this world...
...Concordat uses "ambiguous phrases" to patch up fundamental differences-i.e., it proposes a form of "commissioning" of ministers of both faiths, which Presbyterians are given to understand will not involve reordination. "What then will...
Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...