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ENGLISH CHURCH SENSATION SERIOUS SPLIT IMMINENT ANGLO-CATHOLICS RESENT BAN. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 8.45 p.m.) London, June 16. The Daily Express says the Church of England is facing one of the greatest crises in its history, which may lead to a breakaway of 700,000 members of the AngloCatholic party and their eventual reunion with Rome. Thirty-six archbishops and bishops in daily conference at Lambeth Palace are expected to approve of the rubric, which has already passed the House of Clergy, legalising perpetual reservation of the Sacrament. The church assembly is likely to confirm the bishop’s decision and then the fight will begin as the new rubric will have to go to Parliament for authority, which the Anglo-Catholics refuse to recognise. The rejection of the Bill would strengthen the Anglo-Catholics’ vigorous demand for disestablishment. On the contrary if the Bill passes, the bishops will ban the service devotion to the sacrament /now carried on in many Anglo-Catholic churches, and as the Anglo-Catholics refuse to respect the ban, prosecutions will begin.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19899, 18 June 1926, Page 7
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173NEW RUBRIC Southland Times, Issue 19899, 18 June 1926, Page 7
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