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Lately the psychical enthusiasts have been asking these questions of the church itself. In a letter to last year's Lambeth Conference, the fellowship petitioned the church to reopen a 1937 inquiry into spiritualism undertaken under the auspices of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Although the report was never officially published, it held that there were enough instances of inexplicable psychic events for Anglican clergymen to "keep in touch with groups of intelligent persons who believe in spiritualism." The fellowship also urged the addition of parapsychology to the curriculum of Anglican seminaries. In this way, the letter said...
Since 1867, the bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion have gathered at London's Lambeth Palace approximately every ten years to consider the state of their church. This year, some delegates doubted whether the Tenth Lambeth Conference, which convened last month, was worth holding at all. By last week, though, several notes of relevance had been introduced into the discussion, and there was hope that the conference might produce some lasting results for Anglicanism...
Resolutions of the Lambeth Conference are not binding on the 19 member churches, but they are intended to express the consensus of the Communion. Last week the bishops approved a formal statement reaffirming their belief in the morality of birth control. (The 1930 Lambeth Conference was the first major Christian assembly to approve contraception in principle.) Rejecting the conclusions of Pope Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae, the bishops declared that the responsibility for deciding the number and spacing of children "has been laid by God upon the consciences of parents...
...number of bishops, particularly from Africa, Asia and the U.S., are pressing for reforms within the conference itself. Some believe it should be an elective body that would include priests and laymen as well as bishops. Transformed into a more responsive, democratic institution, the Lambeth Conference might then be able to assert a greater degree of authority on the faithful...
...rubber made contraception cheap and easily available to the masses. With the growing acceptance of contraception in the secular world, the papal stance against birth control hardened, culminating in the 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage). Reacting to the acceptance of birth control by the Anglicans' significant Lambeth Conference that year, Pope Pius XI declared, in accordance with the natural-law theory, that since the sexual act had a procreative intent, it was a violation of divine will to interfere with it. Paul VI substantially reaffirmed that view...