Word: papish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the West Missouri diocese voted Bishop Welles his proposed commission, though there were some tilted eyebrows at the papish smell of the scheme. In Washington, B.C., Bishop Angus Dun of the National Cathedral was cool and cautious: "I would say that in the main prayerbook tradition, the word 'saint' is not attached to particularly selected individuals, but, as in the New Testament, to the community of those set apart by the calling...