BISHOPS IN BONDAGE:
Hebblethwaite, Peter
in the peacetime military or in public service projects who described those eligible for amnesty as "criminals." such as the Peace Corps, hospitals or churches. The Predictably also, the...
...The Predictably also, the Pentagon said that amnesty would relatively short period for such service, Mr...
...Some Anglicans argue that that it claims to be "both Catholic and Reformed"it is better to trust his carefully compiled dossiers than which led to Newman's devastating phrase about its the unreliable memories or hasty impressions of bishops...
...Queen Victheory are to be harmonized...
...The 'identi- "The foresight of the founding fathers, the authors kit' portrait produced by the vacancy-in-See Committee of the Federalist papers such as Madison, Jay, Adams stressed the obvious requirements-openness to new and Jefferson, was enough to make one believe in theological tendencies, ability to encourage men who miracles...
...The present Queen follows the advice of the was made because an evangelical voice was needed on Prime Minister, but in 1961 when controversy raged the bench of bishops...
...public opinion on amnesty...
...After all, the Church of England and so tend to propose sound men and especially suf- would lose its appeal if it displayed no sense of paradox fragan bishops...
...Rauh castigated what he called the "outa full pardon and their time behind bars should be con- rageous and absurd position" of the Nixon Justice sidered service to the country...
...His rending...
...In this way Michael Ramsey came to be Arch- continues...
...The interference by Franco in for freedom...
...There is no doubt that a shift is taking place in Of all the witnesses heard that day, then, it was Mr...
...gelical groups can get along in relatively peaceful coA procedure was devised to allow the diocese to play existence as long as issues are allowed to lie dormant...
...significantly, young people under 30 favor national attitude toward them should in turn reflect this it by 47-42 percent...
...Since Cranmer's time," have been so frank as Queen Elizabeth I in declaring wrote the then Bishop of Durham, "was there ever a that bishops were their own creatures...
...As the headlines testify every day, we have failed postion to amnesty in any form, reflected among the miserably to achieve national pacification in Vietnam...
...matter...
...England has certain privileges which bring it money The wounds of 1928 still rankle...
...After so long, a divorce names...
...If you do not immediately comthe power to withhold recognition from the Church of ply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God...
...It all began in 597 when Augustine arrived bishop forms a Vacancy-in-See Committee made up of in Kent and baptized King Ethelbert at Canterbury on clergy and laity...
...Trevor Beeson re- PETER HEBBLETHWAITE marked, "the dioceses themselves and the bench of (Peter Hebblethwaite is former editor of the Jesuit bishops as a whole will be lacking in first-class minds" publication, The Month...
...Alleged "national" considerations over who should be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, prevailed over the needs of the local church...
...William Temple But its freedom will still not be complete...
...The intertwined destinies of church and the needs of the diocese...
...If it manifestly ceases to be the Folk in pursuit of his arduous duties he traveled up and down Church, then disestablishment will follow, not without the country incognito testing possible candidates...
...Although the pointless war are not criminals asking for our forgivebulk of public opinion is still against unconditional ness...
...W. Saumerez Smith was be very disturbed if they thought that anything had the Prime Minister's appointments secretary and that happened to God...
...Establishment" means that the Church of Church of England (Worship and Doctrine) Measure...
...Then it and burying the great mass of the English who would was revealed that a certain Mr...
...The Catholic and EvanBut Saumerez Smith does not have it all his own way...
...witnesses before the House subcommittee by a spokes- let us at least bring peace and reconciliation to our man for the Non-Commissioned Officers' Association own country...
...Its function is to consider and formulate Whitsunday...
...It contributes twenty-one bishops to the fortunes Parliament refused to allow the church to House of Lords, has a special role on national occasions, introduce its new Prayer Book...
...That was Commonweal: 77...
...on the contrary their conduct reflected great honor amnesty, opposition to it has dropped by 11 points in on their families, their country and themselves, and our the last year...
...Hitler to oppose the appointment of Dr...
...But sometimes the trouble is not so much the limited COMING vision of the local church as the need for balance on the national level...
...mode of action seemed more appropriate to a sleuth What few Anglicans have advocated is the direct than to an appointments secretary, but those who found election of bishops...
...It has only to Canterbury on the grounds that he was a socialist, the most indirect and slender control over the appoint- arid only gave way in the end because-as Churchill 29 March 1974: 76 growled-"he was the only sixpenny article in a penny not what Norwich had ordered, and the appointment bazaar...
...A Parliament which and holds certain key academic posts in the ancient included Dissenters and Roman Catholics, agnostics and universities...
...She wrote to darker outlook for the Church of England...
...There is, of course, die-hard op- fact...
...It may even get the man it asks for...
...But Vacancy- would be awful to contemplate, especially since the old in-See Committees have very little knowledge of possible couple do not quarrel and have worked out a decent candidates outside their own or neighboring diocese, practical arrangement...
...The Church of England toria used to enjoy spending hours vetting possible canwill have the freedom of worship that any church must didates...
...When a The same can be said of the church's relations with diocese becomes vacant, the suffragan (or auxiliary) the state...
...But there was one great fly in the ointment...
...According to the Harris poll, Rauh who best expressed our views in this matter...
...But these ambiguous advantages are purtepid Anglicans, laid down the law for the Church of chased at the price of state control...
...Thus in 1972 Dr...
...Froehike's proposal is much better than Senator the Taft or the Froehlke proposals but for unconditional Taft's, and he is not alone in changing his mind in this amnesty, straight-out amnesty with no ifs, ands or buts...
...one of them: In practice the Bishop need not have worried quite Proud Prelate, so much since an Anglican compromise provided a You know what you were before I made you solution: it was recognized that while Parliament had what you now are...
...the "Folk Church" of the country, for that provides an But if the Queen follows the advice of the Prime argument for letting it hallow the great national moMinister, whose advice does the Prime Minister follow...
...Launcelot Fleming IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ writes about Watergate and retired from the See of Norwich after a remarkably the Europeanization of American politics: creative episcopate in this vast rural area...
...And it will continue as long as the claim can bishop of Canterbury and began to exhibit his splendid be plausibly sustained that the Church of England is eyebrows on the world's television screens...
...Deserters, he held, should Department that Congress lacked authority to act, and be treated on a case-by-case basis...
...This anomalous situation is, of course, that this freedom has to be conceded by Parliament, the result of history, and it is the price paid for Estabbut it is expected to pass without difficulty or delay the lishment...
...Contrasting with such said, would indicate that vindictveness is not a factor in negative views, however, were the comments of Joseph the national treatment of draft resisters...
...At its February Synod meeting it took a the appointment of Spanish bishops is as nothing comdecisive step towards freeing itself from Parliamentary pared with the British government's role in naming control of its worship and doctrine...
...being a better nurse than a mother...
...ishes and had modest intellectual pretensions...
...Those a slim plurality of the American people now favor who conscientiously opposed an increasingly cruel and amnesty with a public service proviso...
...he urgently argued for Congressional support not for Mr...
...a humble part in the appointment of bishops...
...Not all monarchs England...
...were often struggling in lonely pastoral posts-and added The founding fathers of the Constitution predicted another: the setting up in Norwich of the new University everything, and staked everything, on the belief that of East Anglia suggested the need for a bishop who those who rule, although chosen by the people and would be able to hold his own in the intellectual world...
...she gave the "constitutional reply": "Let the senior man Such situations will recur as long as Establishment have it...
...England's forms of worship, it could do nothing to stop Since then the personal interest in these questions of their actually being used...
...Winston Churchill in 1942 took time off from claim...
...a consideration which has never deterred Roman Catholics, one has to admit...
...Froehlke be injurious to military discipline...
...hence not always brilliant, would at the very least In the end Norwich got a zealous conservative evange- be honest...
...It is not forbidden to mention state had something of value...
...In that year of mis- and status...
...ments of disaster or triumph, and baptizing, marrying For many years this was a well-guarded secret...
...not so much healed as ignored...
...And it is the age of the politician as an lical, Prebendary Maurice Wood who, apart from being honest man, in the Montesquieu sense of 1'esprit des a naval chaplain, had worked exclusively in urban par- lois, that came crashing down with Watergate...
...The reason for their hesitation here him out-and they were many-bear witness to his is that the Church of England has a "mixed tradition," friendliness and sincerity...
...The odd thing is Anglican bishops...
...It seemed absurd...
...But then, as Rev...
...Draft evaders L. Rauh Jr., vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic who were sentenced to prison, he said, should be granted Action...
...00000000000000 CHURCH AND CROWN BISHOPS IN BONDAGE Recently the Church of England made a modest bid ment of its own bishops...
...An election and a To leave the appointments in the hands of existing campaign would bring the divisions out into the public bishops would be to perpetuate a club which would arena and reopen old wounds which at the moment are co-opt only the like-minded...
...But now in 1974 practice and monarchs and Prime Ministers has varied...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 4
