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...Nowadays young people develop more quickly than they did in my day," says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded...
...last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then came a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who not only refused to counsel the clergy away from politics but urged Christian action to counter apartheid. Vorster warned that the churches were "headed for a showdown...
...churches themselves-with the exception of the Dutch Reformed-may soon be more actively engaged in the fray. "The great majority of white Christians have felt that they could combine Christianity with apartheid," notes Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban. "But as some Christians become more sensitive to the basic incompatibility between the two, they will force other white Christians to decide where they stand." That may already be happening. One group of Johannesburg Catholics petitioned their bishop for "clear direction . . . before Christian witness is silenced forever...
...phrase "approval of his province" means that bishops should have the consent of the national church. In the case of England, the historic seat of Anglicanism, the approval would have to come not only from the General Synod of the Church of England but also from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. And Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury voted against the resolution in Nairobi. "I have no everlasting objection to the ordination of women," said Ramsey last week in London. He believes "it will come," but he adds that "we must not move too rapidly." Like many other Anglican churchmen...
Under a reorganization brought about by Pope Paul, responsibility for the church's finances has been divided in three. Cardinal Vagnozzi, a onetime apostolic delegate in Washington, coordinates all investments and economic projects. Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio manages the administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which, among other things, oversees the Vatican's payroll and supervises an investment staff of 15 lay and clerical experts. Bishop Paul Marcinkus, who is from Cicero, Ill., directs the Institute for Religious Works, which provides a full range of hanking services...