Word: schisms
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...centuries since Lincoln College, Oxford, performed its classic paradox. Founded to combat Lollardry in 1427, it unwittingly fostered a far greater popular schism in the Church by conferring, in 1726, a fellowship upon a young deacon named John Wesley. To such good purpose did the young deacon put the freedom thus afforded him that Lincoln College was not so much honoring as honored when, on the bicentennial of his admission, it lately unveiled in its court a bust of John Wesley, founder of the largest* religious denomination that has grown up in the last 200 years-Methodism...
...gradually converging, liberalism would be politically somnolent were it not for the stubborn resistance which the Western insurgents have offered to the Administration. By providing for a "Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
...were two: 1) Bishop Vedenski, of the great Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, leader of the Russian Church reform movement, hinted broadly at a wish to discuss with the Vatican some means of reuniting the Eastern (Greek) and Western (Roman Catholic) Christian Churches, and thus bridging the great schism which has lasted more than 1,000 years. 2) Bishop Makary of Peterhof (near Leningrad) urged that the Russian Church adopt "a form of weekly prayer for the Soviet Government, which is now definitely established by the will of the majority of the Russian people . . . and therefore worthy...
...cause of needless schism...
...wrote: '"What heartfelt interest We feel . . . can be easily understood by anyone with even moderate knowledge of ecclesiastical history. . . . And may God grant that this commemoration help indeed, as is Our heartfelt wish, to bring about that those Oriental peoples who ar still held far off by schism may lay aside their prejudices and turn their hearts, and not in vain, towards communion of Faith with...