Word: davises
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The suspicion is that Harry Hopman, coach of Australia's Davis Cup team, picks his players as much for the hang of their jaws as the strength of their forearms and wrists. At least it looked that way last week, when Hopman and his prognathous protégé...
Davis explained that he still considers himself a Christian, although he has no plans to affiliate with any other church. As for Catholicism, he declared: "I do not think that the claim the church makes as an institution rests upon any adequate Biblical and historical basis. I don't...
Rebuilding a Life. Davis insists that his forthcoming marriage to Miss Henderson has nothing to do with his leaving the church. "I am marrying," he said, "to rebuild my life upon a personal love I can recognize as true and real, after a life surrounded in the church by so...
Initially, Davis' Catholic friends were too stunned to respond to the news, although Rosemary Haughton, a housewife and lay theologian, wrote to the Guardian that his defection "is a staggering blow to the whole church." Guardian Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote...
Steady Erosion. Not many priests leave the church as dramatically as did Father Davis, but Catholicism unquestionably is suffering a small but steady erosion of its clerical ranks. A major cause of defection - and of restlessness among priests who prefer to stay within the church - is the question of celibacy...