Word: factionalized
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...Harris' opponents, including six bishops who head dioceses, are a small if troublesome faction. But elsewhere fully 20 of the 27 autonomous Anglican branches forbid women priests and will doubtless reject women bishops as well. The world leader of Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, has been forced willy-nilly to join the rejectionists in his role as Primate of the Church of England. Runcie declared last month that unless church law changes, neither he nor any other English hierarch may recognize a woman bishop or the priests she ordains. Communion between the English and American churches survives, Runcie stated...
...think it was a vast misreading of what Lebanon is really like. They drifted gradually into a very controversial position as the great supporter of the government of Lebanon. Well, to most people in Lebanon, the government is just another faction, and furthermore not a very powerful faction. Amin Gemayel's authority seemed to stop at the gates of the Baabda palace...
Elsewhere Dignity is struggling to cope. A New York City chapter has been split over one faction's marches and disruption of Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the tough new church line. Some chapters have found priests willing to celebrate Masses quietly in non-Catholic buildings, but often with dwindling attendance. Other chapters have disbanded. Nonetheless, 104 chapters remain, and nationwide membership is holding...
...Grinch Army Faction will make its first appearance this Friday at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lecture on anarchism, Fucella said. He added that the group will sing two "dis-Christmas carols" before the speech, entitled "Josiah Warren--The First American Anarchist...
...Grinch Army Faction can't persuade holiday shoppers to forego present buying, it aims at least to convince parents that they should avoid buying war toys for their children, Fucella said. Shoppers may think twice before buying toy guns and other weaponsfor children after watching the fake battles intoy stores that the group plans to stage, headded...