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...British country family one of these bright spring weekends and at teatime you are likely to see such a scene as this: on the tennis-court are the Hon. Diana and the Hon. Molly, daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living (i.e., holds appointive...
...London Daily Mail intruded a note of alarm, predicted that changes in the administration of the Church of England might well revolutionize the life of every parish in England. Since there is a deficiency of some 1,100 clergymen in the Church, there must soon be redistribution of vicars and curates (their assistants) and an amalgamation of many parishes which are at present thinly populated. Some congregations might be transported by bus to and from distant churches. Some curates might be obliged to scurry here & there by motorcycle in order to care for their several flocks...
Both the Mayor of Cardington and the Vicar protested that they had no authority to remove the noxious, disintegrating mass. But not in vain were Buffalo protests. Last week it was reported that the Air Ministry had cleaned up the mess...
Protestant Episcopal Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, 55, has lived and worked in the sprightly city of Wilmington since 1920. He was born in Missouri on the 4th of July, schooled in Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt...
Pious Catholics have more than a mere "healthy" respect for the Holy Father. They look upon him as the vicar of Christ on earth...