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...topics for consideration range widely, from the proper relationship between Christianity and secularism to such purely ecclesiastical issues as Prayer Book reform. There is ample opportunity for bishops to raise new issues. Last week, for example, Archbishop Donald Coggan of York formally proposed that women be admitted to the priesthood-an idea that was shouted down by his peers...
...garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with one, and loves another, who happens to be a servant to the chief of the colony's commissary...
...Almost certainly, schism is out of the question unless a strong effort is made by Rome to silence dissent. Said California's irreverent Episcopal James A. Pike: "Nobody cares enough about religion these days to want a schism." In some areas of the church with an extremely conservative priesthood and hierarchy, such as Los Angeles or much of Great Britain, it is probable that there will be countless quiet, unannounced defections from the church. At the same time, there is evidence that many Catholics will simply ignore the encyclical, without considering themselves any the worse for it. "There...
...been exhausted. "I have tried all the conventional and legal forms of protest to little or no avail" says Philip, who argues that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree. Priesthood or no, both the Justice Department and the State of Maryland indicted the unruly Berrigans on counts-including sabotage, robbery and assault-that could send them to prison for 54 years. Pending trial, Daniel Berngan was allowed to go free on bail. But not Philip. At the time...
...wine merchant of prose-witty, luxuriant, Latinate-Rolfe poured out a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment in his novel Hadrian VII, an account of how a once-rejected candidate for the priesthood was astonishingly elected Pope out of a clear blue Roman sky. Now Hadrian has been skillfully dramatized by Peter Luke, who also relies on A.J.A. Symons' biography of Rolfe, The Quest for Corvo. The result is an effulgent theatrical success in a wan London dramatic season...