PACIFISM AS A HERESY
The Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, writing in .the. "York Diocesan Leaflet," explains his recent statement that "extreme pacifism is heretical." Friends have asked me, he writes, to explain what was in my mind. Of course, I recognise that many who hold heretical, opinions are personally devoted and even saintly Christians. I should perhaps have qualified my expression by saying "heretical in tendency," for I do not know of any formal condemnation by the Church of pacifism as such. But that in its extreme form it is "heretical in tendency" I cannot doubt. This does not apply to those who say that modern warfare is such that to engage in it will almost certainly do more harm than good. That is a Judgment concerning a balance of. values, not a judgment of principle. The position with which I am concerned is that of pacifists who say that it is, '■ asK a universal principle, un-Christian to use in support of law whatever degree of force is requisite, even to the taking of life, in restrain of lawless force or violence.
A decree nisi was granted by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court today in an undefended petition for divorce brought by Conrad Krebs (Mr. R. L. A. Cresswell) against Irene Krebs, on the ground of separation. ■ _',
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 19
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