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Article: Breaking up gently; Anglican Communion.(The growing split in the Anglican Communion)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2005
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Clinging to the past
If the Anglican Communion split up, could anybody tell?
EVEN by the standards of Irish stately homes, Dromantine is a splendid pile, set in many acres of rolling green parkland. If its mighty stone walls could speak, they would have much to say about inter-Christian squabbles. In the days of the original, Scottish Protestant, owners, a Roman priest would rarely have darkened their doors, although most locals are Catholic. This all changed after the first world war: the house was bought by the Catholic Church and became a place which few Protestants cared to enter.
Everything is much easier now, of course. The house's ...