Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of Chaplain Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of...
"I doubt that in the whole of our canon law there is a more complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who...
Ever since San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike had challenged Roman Catholic presidential aspirants to speak out on the question of governmental sponsorship of birth-control information for other countries (TIME, Dec. 7), every non-Catholic with a pulpit seemed eager to get a word in...
Minutes later, he was in the pulpit. "Responsible choice as to the number and spacing of children," he said in his sermon, "is simply one of the many areas of life in which people are called upon to make conscientious decisions under God." If a couple "ought to be having...
The National Council went on to a thoroughgoing endorsement of birth control, urging Protestant Episcopal citizens "to press through their governments, and through social, educational and international agencies, for measures aimed at relieving problems of population growth."