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...sleepy fishing port of Phanthiet, 100 miles east of Saigon, a 21-year-old novice Buddhist monk named Nguyen Huong poured gasoline over his robes, then lit a match and turned himself into a human pyre. He was the second Buddhist priest to burn himself to death in protest against the authoritarian regime of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and his ruling family...
After Cambridge, Ramsey entered Cuddesdon College, a theological seminary near Oxford, and began his rapid and seemingly effortless rise to the top rank of the Established Church. He served for two years as a deacon and priest in a Liverpool slum parish before moving on to more gracious livings in Lincoln, Boston, Durham and Cambridge. His first theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked...
Ramsey enjoys worldwide renown for his lack of small talk. When Ramsey was subwarden of Lincoln Theological College, recalls Canon Herbert Waddams of Canterbury Cathedral, he had occasion to receive a young man seeking admission to the seminary. Outside, the clock struck 2:45. Silence reigned: awed youth, shy priest. Presently the clock struck 3. At last Ramsey spoke. "I think you'll find Lincoln a rather quiet place," he said...
...parish after parish across England, many of these young clergymen are experimenting liturgically with "kitchen Communions" in homes and midmorning family Communions on Sunday followed by parish breakfasts. "I could take you to 30 parishes in this diocese," says one Birmingham priest, "where church is a going concern and people are aware that something is going...
Kitchen-Sink Communion. But Bishop Stockwood has more serious goals than mere shock. Three years ago, he started a night-school seminary to produce worker-priests, and in September will ordain the first class of men engaged in ordinary trades who will thereafter also double as clergy. This challenges the strong tradition that Anglican clergymen should be gentle Establishmentarians from the best schools. And if communicants will not come to church, Communion, Stockwood decided, could go to them; his priests now bring "kitchen-sink Communion" to homes; one such priest, when he needs Communion bread, just nips around...