CLERGY CHALLENGED
Can't Refuse Communion to
Lip-Sticked Women
CONTROVERSY AT HOME,
LONDON, May 13
A clergyman has no legal right to refuse Communion to lip-sticked women, a diocesan law officer informed the -Daily Mail." Anglicans are permitted to withhold the Sacrament only if the communicant does not kneel Without good cause, refuses to attend public prayer, or is a "notorious depraver ot the Prayer Book, or an evil liver. Kefusal in other circumstances offends ecclesiastical law and renders the offender liable to heavy punishment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 7
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