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...four-year-old struggle between Dictator Hitler and the Confessional Synod, Germany's anti-Nazi Protestant Church, has been a clash between ruthlessness and spunky defiance. Last week, however, the Third Reich tried a Confessional leader in a way that would have brought credit to any Government...
...after the Patriarch's funeral tension had become so great that the Premier bolted from the capital to Brod where Prince Paul, the chief Regent, was vacationing. In an effort to cause the Premier the maximum embarrassment, the Orthodox Holy Synod this week ordered him back to Belgrade to stand trial with the rest of the "excommunicated" before a Church Court...
...Orthodox Synod proceeded to excommunicate temporarily almost every Orthodox member of the Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...
...convocation accomplished nothing that it set out to do. For the King, scenting an attempt to undermine his god-given authority in a proposal that a synod be substituted for bishops, broke up the meeting in a huff, and threatened non-conformers to "harry them out of the land, or worse." Yet that Hampton Court Conference goes down in history as a high water mark for the English language, for before the King had sent the delegates packing, a plan had been drawn up for a new translation of the Bible...
Howard David Higgins of the Reformed Episcopal Church, which has 8,200 members in the U. S. The entire hierarchy of his church in North America did the consecrating: Bishop Frank V. C. Cloak of the Chicago Synod, Bishop Joseph Edgar Kearney of the "Missionary Jurisdiction" of South Carolina, Bishop George Marshall of the First Synod of Canada (affiliated with the Free Church of England). Bishop Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book...