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Last year Father William C. Kernan, 53, assistant to St. James's rector, left the ministry to become a Roman Catholic layman (TIME, May 26, 1952). "Authority means law which is enforceable," he explained. "There is an absolute lack of authority in the Episcopal Church-at least so far as the priesthood is concerned...
Last week Kernan's rector, having resigned his pastorate, followed him to Rome. Father James Harry Price, 50, who has been at St. James the Less for all his 25 years in the Episcopal ministry, announced that he had just been received into the Roman Catholic faith. "In my long search for truth," he said, "I came gradually to see that I could not find in the Episcopal Church the absolute and consistent principles and genuine authority so essential for true religion and for the imposition of my moral bond." Divorced twelve years ago and a grandfather, Price said...
Regarding the Rev. W. C. Kernan and his meanderings from the Baptist Church, through the Episcopal to Roman Catholicism, permit me to make this comment: I rejoice in the freedom of my particular denomination (Methodist) in that, in obedience to Our Lord's words, it refuses "binding pronouncements" on matters wherein our own intelligence should enlighten and lead; and therefore, I have no desire to flee from this freedom into any system of theological or intellectual bondage...
...BILL KERNAN'S CURIOUS CAREER SHOWS HIM EVEN ILL FITTED FOR HIS AUTHORITARIAN CHOICE. HE WILL LEARN TO ACCEPT DISCIPLINE AS WELL AS DEMAND IT. WHATEVER GAVE HIM THE IDEA THAT THE RANK & FILE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY DON'T OFTEN GET "SORE" AT THEIR SPIRITUAL PASTORS...
...Protestant Christian, I wish to salute-Father Kernan for holding to those principles which . . . are an important phase of the Christian life. It is difficult to be indifferent to these issues, and it is because of them that many Protestants look with respect at their Catholic brothers...