Religion: Ecclesiastical Renos

Want a new husband? Get a divorce, move to a ''liberal" diocese and let the bishop marry you to the clergyman of your choice.

With these bitter words the editors of the Episcopal weekly Living Church last week publicly undertook to "bow our head in shame for our own church." Their bitterness and shame were intensified because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees —in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides &...

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