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...unfastened the silk ribbons that held the Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla...
Saga of a Scholar. It had taken the dean himself quite a while to digest the news, but last week the whole saga came out. "Peters," it seemed, was really Robert Parkins, an Anglican priest who had been arrested in Britain for bigamy. He had never been to Oxford or taken an M.A. at Adelaide; nor had he earned a music degree from Durham...
...Marie Aline was joined by a teen-age novice, Sister Dominique, who had once been a student at the University of Aix-Marseilles. Every morning after Mass, the two sallied forth alone in their blue and grey habits on long walks through sections of the city where nuns and priests-or anyone with a few pesos to rub together-are seldom to be seen. At last the horrified mother superior summoned them and demanded an explanation. "We are searching for our future home," replied Sister Marie Aline serenely. "But it is not up to us to decide exactly where...
...figures to show that the way to Rome is anything but a one-way street. This week New York's Episcopal Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan made a move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give...
...Humanizing the Divine." To underline his point, the bishop also noted that 193 of the 3,474 adults received into the Episcopal Church in his diocese during the past year had been Roman Catholics. One of them, Dr. Roderick Alverez Molina of Herencia, Spain, had been a Catholic priest. Explained Dr. Molina...