Word: schisms
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...Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...
...church has wanted a bishop of its own, but the regular Anglican Church refused to provide one. Last August the dissidents finally decided to get a bishop on their own initiative, elected George Frederick Bingley Morris, retired Anglican Bishop of North Africa, and installed him in Johannesburg. Faced with schism, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned Morris to withdraw or be considered excommunicated. Morris's answer did not sound as if he intended to give up his bishopric. He threatened to sue the Archbishop of Canterbury for libel and appeal the whole case to the Crown...
...very encouraging to note the U.S. Air Force's sponsorship of Dr. Buchman and his Moral Re-Armament tour. Finer work can scarcely be imagined. My own group is making immediate application for like treatment. We have a small but growing schism from M.R.A., based on the doctrine that God is at least a billionaire...
...Convocations of Canterbury and York, traditional arbiters of all doctrinal matters in the Church of England, had just accepted, with little dispute, a report recommending extension of "limited intercommunion" with the Church of South India. The argument was not long in coming, and with it the threat of a schism in the Anglican Church...
...sources claim is grossly exaggerated) might be forced to secede and join the Roman Catholic Church. Reason: "That we may, by continuing to hold to the faith, represent the true Church of England, and that if we seek reconciliation with the Holy See we may end, historically speaking, the schism which took place under Henry VIII...