Word: toronto
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This week and next, more than 1,300 bishops, priests, deacons and laymen of the Anglican Communion are gathering in Toronto to measure and discuss the health of their church. They find it in an ironically precarious state: it is prospering almost everywhere except in England...
...worship at St. James' Cathedral and in discussion at the Royal York Hotel and the Maple Leaf Gardens, a primacy of honor during Toronto's Second Anglican Congress* will be accorded to the purple-cassocked archbishops of Canterbury and York. But delegates from English dioceses will be lost in a sea of faces from Nigeria, Tanganyika, Japan, the U.S. and elsewhere. Today the 18 branches of the Anglican Communion exist in 80 countries-a greater geographical span than that of any major church but Rome's. The world's 42 million Anglicans worship...
...taxes caused by him more than equalled their share." A 73-year-old bachelor attorney, Charles Millar, capriciously started what Canadians still refer to as the "Baby Derby" by bequeathing $568,106 "to the Mother who [in the ten years after his death] has given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children." The ensuing fertility race shocked the nation, but on May 30, 1938, the prize was duly divided among four winners who had tied with nine offspring each. William Shakespeare pointedly left his wife "my second best bed," thereby raising questions forevermore about his marital life...
...impressed by the changes wrought in Roman Catholicism during the Papacy of John XXIII. Anglican Bishop Oliver Tomkins of Bristol, the Conference's presiding officer, declared that there was now the possibility of "a positive and fruitful dialogue" between Rome and other confessions. The Roman guests agreed, and Toronto's Father Gregory Baum even admitted that there was no dogmatic barrier to Rome's joining the World Council-although such a move now might be misunderstood by both Catholics and Protestants...
Canada, the largest foreign borrower from the U.S. and a nation that of late has shown an increasing tendency to hobble U.S. investments, did not like the taste of its own medicine; stocks on the Toronto exchange fell 21% in one day. Japan's stock market suffered its worst one-day loss in history, the decline being led by companies (such as Sony and Hitachi) that depend heavily on U.S. public financing...