CHURCH AND STATE
CONFERENCE SOUGHT ARCHBISHOPS' VIEWS LONDON, Jan. 23. The Archbishops' Commission on the relations between Church and' State, appointed as the result of the Prayer Book controversy, rejects disestablishment as a remedy for the church's present difficulties if other means are devisable for securing church freedom of action in tilings spiritual.
The commission recommends a roundtable conference to endeavor to reach an agreement on the Prayer Book, and to request a Parliamentary enactment giving the church new powers in spiritual matters without submission to Parliamentary control or approval. It recommends the creation of a final Court of Appeal of Ecclesiastical Cause, in place of the Privy Council, and the establishment of a bishop's tribunal to investigate charges and complaints agiainst a bishop.
The report expresses its conviction that the case for disestablishment is strong. Some consider it preferable to an indefinite continuance of the present relationship between Church and State, but it would be a mistake to assume that disestablishment would give freedom and power of development.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 25 January 1936, Page 5
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