Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bishop Sherrill proposed a scheme to keep homeless Presiding Bishops out of Central Park. Said he: the Church should buy an estate within 30 miles of New York, house the P.B. and his staff there, eventually build it into "an Episcopalian...
Divorce. The present Episcopalian canon on divorce is based on Christ's saying, But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -Matthew 5:32. The only divorced person who may ever be remarried with the Church's blessing is the innocent party in a divorce granted on grounds of adultery. The Convention's 17-man Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony recommended that bishops should be allowed discretion to permit church marriages...
...discuss the problems which all of us have on our minds." Nevertheless, many non-Catholics bridled at the new relation between the U.S. Government and the Church of Rome which looked to them like a breach of the traditional American separation between church and state.* Throughout the war, while Episcopalian Taylor carried on his Vatican activities with as little publicity as possible, Protestant bodies intermittently protested the presidential appointment...
According to some Christians, all of a man's life is simply a preparation for "a good death." Virginia Moore, an Episcopalian, believes that there are fashions in dying and that men die as they live-according to the style of their times. Last week she buttressed this thesis in a macabre treasury of last words (Ho for Heaven; Dutton...
Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...