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...Church of England nowadays draws half its new clergy from the growing Evangelical wing, but men of more liberal stripe dominate among the bishops and power brokers. Thus it was a dramatic step last week when an amiable Evangelical named George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, was named to be the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury. Carey was one of two candidates that a 16- member commission proposed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Queen Elizabeth made the formal appointment. Carey next year will become the spiritual leader of both the English flock and 70 million Anglicans and Episcopalians...
Besides being the most forthright figure among the handful of bishops from the church's Evangelical side, Carey is a remarkable choice for three other reasons: as a pastor and educator, he has been closely associated with the charismatic renewal movement, which practices speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Holy Spirit; he has been a bishop for just 2 1/2 years; and he is a product of the working class, whereas Archbishops are traditionally upper- crust men bred in elite boarding schools and polished at Cambridge or Oxford. Raised in publicly subsidized housing in London's hardscrabble East...
Moore's tale was even more shocking. The former model, 39, testified that over several years, beginning in 1986, she shared cocaine with Barry at least 100 times -- in hotel rooms; at the residence of Bishop H.H. Brookins, a powerful leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; even at Barry's home, where the mayor cooked up a batch of crack cocaine in the kitchen. On the first such occasion, Moore said, the couple visited an apartment where Barry pulled a stash of powder cocaine from under the corner of a rug. Once, Moore said, after she and Barry...
...some prominent bishops are at odds with shock tactics. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, O'Connor's predecessor as pro-life chairman, says that "the church can be most effective in the public debate on abortion through moral persuasion, not punitive measures." On the other hand, San Diego's Bishop Leo Maher denied Communion to a pro-choice Catholic who was running for the California senate...
Catholic canon law prescribes excommunication for specified moral or ecclesiastical offenses, including procuring an abortion. But bishops like O'Connor are breaking new ground in publicly applying the penalty to politicians who vote pro-choice or favor abortion funding. Father James Provost of the Catholic University of America says that a bishop could theoretically take such action under catchall canon-law provisions concerning errant church members, but he says such instances are "very rare." Though there was speculation that O'Connor would not have issued such a sweeping statement without tacit Vatican approval, Rome has no public policy...