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Chubby little Dean Milo Hudson Gates of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last month recommended to Protestants the practice of saying their prayers with a rosary. To those who find this too "Romish" he suggested the use of a knotted string. Quick to approve was the clergy of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, which has long out-Romanized the Romans. Said its monthly bulletin Ave: "Good for the Dean! . . . Perhaps we shall now be able to say our beads in the Cathedral without interruption. The last time we ventured...
...Tracts and Newman's conversion stirred up resounding piety and dissension in the Church of England and in the collateral Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. High-Churchmen in England and Anglo-Catholics in the U. S. wanted symbolism, celibacy and other "Romish" practices in their worship. Opposed were the Low-Churchmen and the plain Episcopalians, who detested every smack of Rome...
High-church priests may now anoint the sick. (This practice, thought to be Romish, was not previously canonical.) To the Burial Service, least Christian of the rites, have been added more selections from the New Testament. The Psalms have been corrected for mistranslations, but still do not conform with the Biblical version. A petition for travelers by air has been added to the Litany...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...more or less consequential lay members of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained in the Prayer Book. The signers of the memorial omitted to specify certain Romish practices which they regarded with much disfavor; but they made reference to "an organized movement wishing the Protestant Episcopal Church to adopt some of the doctrines and forms of worship now observed in the Roman Catholic Church...