NO CHURCH BAN ON DR. WOODARD
“Free To Participate In Sacraments” (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 3. “I do not wish to enter into any controversy regarding the visit of Dr. Woodard, who had the particulars of Archbishop Owen’s rulings, before he left London.” said the Rt. Rev. E. J. Rich, Bishop Assistant to the Primate, tonight. Bishop Rich said that to prevent any misunderstandings, he wished to correct “one or two statements made recently. “I told Archdeacon Prebble, Vicar-General of the Auckland diocese, that I had not discussed with Dr. Woodard the question of attendance at the Sacrament —the matter of Unction was certainly not in my mind when I said that—l meant the Holy Communion.
“There was certainly no thought in my mind of Dr. Woodard or anyone else, being excluded from the Holy Communion. In the nature of the case. Unction is normally administered in a hospital or ‘in a sick room. Permission to share in such a service has not been refused to Dr Woodard,” said Bishop Rich.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28629, 4 July 1958, Page 10
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