CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
ARCHBISHOP URGES FULL COMMUNION SINGLE UNIT NOT PRACTICABLE NEW YORK, September 9. The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing 300 Protestant under the auspices of the World Council of Churches, said that unity fof the world’s Christian Churches snould be sought not as one Church under a single constitution, but as a series of churches in full communion, like the Anglican Churches throughout the world. Dr Fisher, without mentioning the proposed merger of ■ the Protestant Kpisc-opal. and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, added that it would be most difficult for two churches to agree on one constitution, particularly episcopal and non-episco-pal denominations. The World Council of Churches was still in the formative stage, but it should become the voice of the Christian conscience. Dr Fisher regretted that the ‘Roman Catholic Church was npt a member of the council, also the Russian Orthodox Church, because when the council was being formed before the war there was an iron curtain between Moscow and the rest of the world.
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Evening Star, Issue 25894, 11 September 1946, Page 5
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