Word: heenan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading religious leaders of Britain, the Catholics' John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster and the Anglicans' Archbishop Ramsey of Canterbury, are deeply opposed on the issue of canonization. Cardinal Heenan sees it as a badly needed restorative "to recall the Catholic Church in Britain to a sense of discipline and allegiance to the Pope." Archbishop Ramsey is worried that it will rekindle religious antagonism. "I am increasingly convinced that the canonization would be harmful to the ecumenical cause in England and that it would encourage the emotions which militate against it," he said. He finds a "siege mentality" among...