Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious spokesman on frequent radio and TV programs. Most recently he has been leading a fight against "Communist influences" in Scarsdale's public schools. Last week, after preaching at the morning service, 52-year-old High Churchman Kernan told his rector that he did not consider himself an Episcopalian any more: he was seeking admission to the Roman Catholic Church...
...invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt himself equally helpless even to enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable to get sore...
...pressure of his doubts grew heavy, Episcopalian Kernan began looking outside his own communion, decided that he belonged in the Church of Rome. Last week, though he has no definite plans for supporting his wife and six children, he told his friends he felt like...
Passed over as Army chief of staff in favor of a junior corps commander, Joe Collins. Considered retiring, entering politics. Last year Harry Truman picked him-an Episcopalian-as the nation's first Ambassador to the Vatican, but in the resulting furor Clark asked to have his name withdrawn...
...disappointment in Washington was his snub by Baptist Harry Truman, who failed to answer repeated invitations to attend the meetings. (Said Billy, "I guess he was just too busy or something.") As a consolation prize, he went to Manhattan last week for an hour-long talk with Episcopalian Douglas MacArthur. "He is one of the most inspiring men I ever met," Billy said. "He is deeply religious...