Religion: Bishops Chided

The most & right reverend bishops of the Lambeth Conference of the Church of England and its affiliates were last week chided, as they have been before, for their pronouncement in 1930 that birth control may in some cases be effected by other methods than complete abstinence (TIME, Aug. 25, 1930). Last year the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury appointed a committee to consider the Lambeth resolution. Kept secret until last week, this committee's report deplores progressive weakening since 1908, when the bishops called birth control "demoralizing . . . hostile," and...

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