CHURCH FREEDOM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 39, 25 January 1936, Page 6

CHURCH FREEDOM.

!-:■ O | -V Disestablishment Rejected as Remedy. ARCHBISHOPS’ COMMISSION IN ENGLAND. ■#; ' ■ i ■ Press Association —Copyright. London, Jan. 23 Tbe Archbishops’ Commission on relations between the Church and the State, appointed as a result of the Prayei Book, controversy, rejects - disestablishment as the remedy of the Church’s present difficulties, if other means are devisable of securing church freedom oi action in things spiritual. It recommends a round table conference*; to endeavour to reach an agreement on the Prayer Book, after which it requests 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 ol Appeal of Ecclesiastical Causes in plact of the Privy Council, and the establishment of a Bishop’s Tribunal to investigate charges and complaints agains' bishdps. , • . . || The report'expresses its conviction thai the case for disestablishment is strong Some consider it preferable to indefinite continuance of the present relationship of Church and State but that it woulc be a mistake to assume that disestablishment would give freedom and power oi development.