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...most crucial "episcopal acts" of all will be consecrations of the new bishops that the schismatic church must acquire in order to survive. Some defectors who formed their own diocese have elected as a bishop the Rev. James Mote of Denver, rector of the first parish to leave the Episcopal Church. To become bishops in apostolic succession, however, Mote and other candidates from the new church must be consecrated by three recognized bishops. During the past year the movement has approached 15 Episcopal bishops for help. Though he refuses to say so, Chambers is willing to perform consecrations, and TIME...
After picking up some bruises, jail time and a criminal record during the late '60s war protests, I cite Matthew 7:3: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" At least the Russians aren't told they have the right of protest...
...tall, weathered, attractive, tweedy-looking Englishwoman, has just started a visit to the U.S. to pro mote her book-full of fear that she will be regarded as a freak. She and Conundrum will no doubt be attacked by wom en's liberationists, because both James and Jan have a romantic view of women's nature ("Her frailty is her strength, her inferiority is her privilege") and both believe that there are few more exalted jobs than raising a family. But freakish, no. It is the book's remarkable value that it manages to place what...
Aside from his purely literary abilities, Sheed's work demonstrates the combined virtues of classical education and traditional liberalism. Discredited in politics and literature, G.K. Chesterton may inhabit mote-lined library shelves, but Sheed remembers the man's wiser aphorisms and brings them to bear on current culture. Whittaker Chambers may have been an abhorrent character, but he wasn't totally manic, and Sheed notes that his trial testimonies stand up pretty well years later. As artistic and social fads come and go, Sheed will probably remain, looking at them slightly askance, and somewhere finding a transcendent meaning...
...activity stopping at 11 a.m. for a universal moment of solemn silence in recollection of the prodigious sacrifice in resolution that war might forever cease as an instrument of national policy. Those who march on Washington November 15 will be hearing the mulled drums of that other and perhaps mote humane America which had fixed upon Armistice Day not only as an annual tribute to those who had died in the War against the Central Powers but also as an annual reminder of our solemn pledge to do everything possible as a nation to prevent recourse to war. Repentance...