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Sound. On Great Heron, the great divide is not between rich and poor; there are no poor. It is the lingering schism from the great debate of 1942. when family was set against family over whether to hold the annual island croquet tournament in wartime. The "it would be bad taste'' faction finally won out over those who insisted that "the Boys would want the tournament . . . after all what are they fighting...
...this action by Associate Defense Minister Pierre Sevigny and Trade Minister George Hees. In addition, Works Minister Davy Fulton resigned to head the PC Party in British Columbia, and Justice Minister Donald Fleming and Secretary of State G. Ernest Halpenny left the Cabinet for reasons of health. The party schism has penetrated deep enough into the ranks of PC's to create an antagonistic and vociferous wing...
State of the Church. Ecumenical councils of the past were summoned when the church was faced with clear and present danger-heresy, schism, internal corruption, or the violent enmity of civic powers. Vatican II comes at a time when the Roman Catholic Church has never seemed so strong or so durable. Its membership-550 million-is at an alltime high; it has no fewer than 418,000 priests and 946,000 nuns...
Councils of the Renaissance delayed, but could not prevent, the division of Christendom that came with the Reformation. The Council of Constance ended the Great Schism of the West, a disastrous 40-year era in which the church had three rival claimants for the papacy. This council, like the forthcoming Vatican Council, was convened by a Pope John XXIII; since historians now agree that he had not been validly elected, the present Pope was free to use the same numerals. The Council of Trent (1545-63) was a belated effort to reform the corrupt Catholic practices-notably, the traffic...
Center of the schism is the Church of the Redeemer in Palo Alto, whose parishioners are all former members of the nearby Episcopal Church of St. Mark...