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...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...
...spite of his retiring ways, Ramsey has already made considerable impact on the English Church. Like his predecessor, now Lord Fisher of Lambeth, he is a convinced ecumenicist, and serves as one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. Last year he visited Moscow and Istanbul for theological discussions with Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion. A close personal friend of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Archbishop John Heenan, who is the odds-on favorite to become the next English cardinal, Ramsey last year became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to lecture at Belgium...
Greater Liberty. Within the Church of England, Ramsey has chosen to achieve his goals by conciliation and diplomacy rather than blunt attack. Many of his clergy favor a complete separation of church and state. But Ramsey supports antidisestablishmentarianism, although he wants the church to have "greater liberty to order its own affairs." Recently, Parliament passed a Ramsey-inspired measure that frees church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council. He hopes now to get parliamentary approval for a revision of canon law, which was last codified in 1604, and for the right of bishops to experiment with new liturgical...
Archbishop Ramsey argues that "there are plenty of people in the country who are determined to go on making a fight for right moral standards, and these recent troubles have stirred us to do it." Many of England's clergymen seem to have a more flexible attitude toward the fight than the archbishop does. Almost every week London's press can headline the words of an Anglican cleric seeking to make his faith "relevant" to modern life, who jovially expresses toleration for homosexuality, divorce or adultery. An Anglican bishop recently suggested that "we stop using the word...
Around the World. Ramsey is not concerned only with the sickness within the Church of England. He heads some scattered missionary outposts overseas, and as chief primate of the communion, keeps close watch on the pulse of all its daughter provinces. Much of the liaison between Canterbury and other churches is handled by the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, 55, executive officer of the Anglican Communion. A former bishop of Olympia, Wash., Bayne travels more than 150,000 miles a year coordinating everything from missionary work to seminary needs for the churches, says, "There isn't a church that doesn...