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...Church in the present world crisis . . . with special reference to the kind of world order that will follow the present struggle." The Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, is also likely to be at Toronto. Last month he set a keynote for it by convoking the Malvern Conference in England (TIME, Jan. 20), which drew up a sweeping plan for postwar society...
...Malvern resolutions were revolutionary, the speeches which spurred the conference to their acceptance were no less so. Seldom has the Church called sinners to repentance with such bitter jeremiads as those by which ten lay speakers called the Church itself to repentance. Gloomed Critic-Philosopher John Middleton Murry: "The Church has no relevant pattern of goodness to set before contemporary man. . . . Regarding unemployment has the Church done any other than acquiesce in the appalling solution which is the only one secular society has found, namely, preparation for war? . . . The Church fails in leadership because it shows no signs of having...
With greatcoats wrapped around them, they gathered day after day in the paralyzing cold of unheated Malvern College to hear speaker after speaker denounce present-day failure to identify Christianity with any great cause except "nosing out fornication." And then without a single dissenting voice they adopted a resolution presented by the Archbishop himself. Chief planks...
Geneva (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Maurice Colbourne & Barry Jones). At 83, Shaw is still almost the smartest guy in show business. Last year his Geneva-spoofing the League of Nations and potching the dictators-was produced at the Malvern Festival and in London. This year, the minute war broke out Shaw decided to bring Geneva up to date. He further announced that as long as the headlines continue to be dramatic, he will continue to crib from them...
After the hour or so of free time which follows every Malvern meal, the day continued with more meditation, individual conferences, the Stations of the Cross, spiritual reading, prayers, beads, confession, finally Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Spiritual climax of the retreat came the second night, when each retreatant was permitted 15 minutes of private Adoration of the Sacrament. To a Catholic, the ineffable privilege of kneeling alone near the Consecrated Host- usually impossible in a crowded city church-is equivalent to kneeling alone close to God. Men of Malvern, prizing the still hours of early morning, last week drew...