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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young William Purcell Witcutt was studying for the Anglican ministry some 20 years ago, he met Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month...
...will do no preaching, but he will sit with the congregation until he "reabsorbs the atmosphere of the Church of England." Though he had little to say to the press, he admitted: "The reason I left the Catholic Church was because I grew to dislike the rigidity of the Roman Catholic faith; I prefer the broader outlook of the Church of England...
Bishop Wilson was happy over this return to the Anglican fold, but added: "This is nothing so unusual. In my own diocese alone, we have several Roman priests who have come over to us. But it is not our habit to advertise the conversion of a man from Rome to our faith. It is not our way of doing things...
...Thus a Roman Catholic priest made contact with a station of the underground within Russia. For six months after World War II, "Father George" traveled through the U.S.S.R. with Red army credentials, studying resistance to the Communist regime and especially the secret confederacy of Christians. What he found makes an exciting book, written in collaboration with magazine-writer Gretta Palmer and published this week as God's Underground (Appleton-Century-Crofts...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...