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George Docherty quit his job and went back to school so he could enter the University of Glasgow and prepare for his ministerial studies. During the war he joined the community movement centered on the Scottish island of lona (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and distinguished himself for his work with young people in the Glasgow slums...
...Editors lona and Peter Opie spent seven years looking through haystacks of diaries, letters, books and plays to find their needling rhymes & riddles. They dug into the histories of kings and queens, wits and wags, drunks and druids, consulted everyone from George Bernard Shaw to their own children, aged six and four...
Work v. Theology. The idea of labor as a form of prayer is central at Agape, as it is at the 13-year-old community at lona, off the Scottish coast (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947). This is the time in history, thinks Vinay, when cooperative manual work is the essential Christian activity, just as theology or faith was central in earlier centuries. Says Waldensian Carlo Lupo: "With all the respect we have for ecumenical councils and for doctors of theology, we must recognize that theological discussion belongs to a past state in church development. Today's religious revolution...
...this chilly consensus was melted last week by a powerful voice that spoke up in the cadets' behalf. New York's Cardinal Spellman announced that he had asked the three Catholic men's colleges in his archdiocese-Fordham University, Manhattan College and lona College-to admit the cadets. All three colleges said they would-adding that no cadet would be allowed to play on any varsity team. "To err is human," said Francis Cardinal Spellman, "to forgive, divine...
During the 7th Century two early churchmen, Saints Braulionis and Adamnan of lona, referred to the existence of a cloth venerated as the shroud in which the body of Christ was wrapped when it was laid in the tomb. In 1171 William, Archbishop of Tyre, mentioned such a shroud in Constantinople. In 1204 a member of the Fourth Crusade, which sacked the city, sent the shroud to his father in France. But in 1349 the Church of St. Stephen in Besançon, where it was kept, caught fire, and the shroud seemed to have vanished...