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Before the Full Synod of the Convocation of York, the Most Reverend and Right .Honorable Cyril Forster Gar-bett spoke his liberal, 71-year-old mind. His subject: the marriage of Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Britain's tall, second-ranking prelate found nothing good in the conditions imposed by the Roman church on such unions...
Germany's traditional and somber Repentance Day, almost forgotten under the Nazis, was celebrated with special fervor this year. Portly, bald Theology Professor Heinrich Vogel of the University of Berlin wrote a special prayer for the occasion. In the Evangelical churches (about 1,500) of Berlin and Brandenburg synod, German heads bowed piously to its words...
Even after the Bolshevik Revolution the North American church* did not deny the general principle of its subordination to the patriarchate of Moscow, but from then on the church actually practiced independence-after almost 125 years of filial allegiance to the Russian Synod...
After U.S. recognition of Russia (1933), the Russian Synod demanded a pledge of loyalty to the Soviets, promptly suspended the North American church when it was refused. Recently Russia's new primate, Patriarch Alexei, had a new try. But in his ukase was a familiar clause: the North American church must abstain "from political activities directed against the U.S.S.R...
...Toronto and Kingston Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada need not apologize for its resolution admitting that there is a powerful streak of spiritual power in Communism [TIME, May 28]. If the Russian people were not so deeply religious, Communism could not have succeeded. This war ought to illustrate to the most gullible that our conception of Christianity with its repetition of wars is neither Christian nor lasting and cannot hope to please the Lord who preached brotherhood and love...