Word: garbett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible for a Christian to be a Communist? It depends on what you mean by "Communist," says the Archbishop of York. Last week the Most Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett said that the early Christians were real communists, whose precept and practice had virtually disappeared from the earth...
Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...
These were not the views of a socialist-baiting Tory. First as vicar of Portsea, then as bishop of South London's slum-ridden Southwark district, Dr. Garbett learned a great deal about what life is like among the poor; as an enthusiastic sponsor of his Church's famed, leftish Malvern program in wartime, he won the hearts of Anglican liberals...
...marriages registered in heaven, or just at the town hall? If a marriage is not a holy sacrament, as well as a civil contract, says the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop...
While adultery is the chief cause of divorce in England, Dr. Garbett does not believe that adultery is always good grounds: "Often [adultery] is committed under circumstances of great strain and temptation, with the person committing the sin never really losing love for wife or husband...