LIP-STICKED WOMEN.
MAY_ RECEIVE COMMUNION. REFUSAL A BREACH OF LAW. (United Press Association— Copyright). LONDON, May 13. " A clergyman has no legal right to refuse communion to lacked women," a diocesan law officei informed the "Daily Mail.'' "Anglicans are permitted to Withhold the Sacrament only if the commmifcant does not kneel without good cause, refuses to attend public prayei, or is a 'notorious depraver of the •Prayer Book or an evil liver. "Refusal under other circumstances offends ecclesiastical law and is liable to heavy punishment."
A cabled message published yesterday stated that the Rev. T. Marley, vicar of Sedgley,. was the third vicar within a month to announce refusal or Communion to' lip-sticked women, i
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 180, 14 May 1935, Page 5
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