Religion: Prelude to Denver

One problem which will occupy the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church which meets in Denver this week is a proposed canon which would permit divorced persons to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, a concession allowed at present only to the innocent party in a divorce for adultery (TIME, May 4). One astute, conservative Episcopal leader who will not be present to discuss this canon is Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. He was resting under doctor's orders last week at Mt. Desert, seaside resort in Maine....

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