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AAW - Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
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  - 2 - Deposited Collections
    - SOTS - Sword of the Spirit
      - 1 - Sword of the Spirit: Christian Co-operation

Repository	Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No	AAW/DC/2/SOTS/1/8
Title	Christian Co-operation: Local Christian Councils
Date	January 1944-June 1945
Level	File
Description	The file focuses on a survey of Local Christian Councils across the UK, and the attempts to issue a Joint Statement on Religious Freedom by the Catholic Sword of the Spirit and the non-Catholic Religion and Life. It includes meetings with the newly appointed Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Griffin, to discuss the work of the Sword of the Spirit and the Joint Statement, over which he raised objections. The file also covers the death of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the appointment of his successor, Geoffrey Fisher; the death of William Paton, Secretary of the World Council of Churches; Beales' efforts to publish books on Cardinal Hinsley and ecumenism; ecumenical relief and reconstruction in Europe, including a draft article by Edith Ellis on the principles for the foundation of a new world order after the War; a statistical summary of Catholic churches, schools and other buildings destroyed or damaged as the result of flying bombs in the Dioceses of Westminster, Southwark and Brentwood; correspondence, articles and press cuttings relating to the reaction of the Vatican statement on bombing raids in Rome; the visit to London by Dr Willem Adolph Visser t'Hooft, the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches and active supporter of German Resistance against the Third Reich; transcript copies of a postcard received by the BBC from Abbé Alfred Martin, Record of the Church of Sart-Tilman, at Angleur, Belgium, January 1945 Correspondents include Rev Ronald Allen, British Council of Churches; Michael de la Bedoyere of the Catholic Herald; George Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Bishop Edward Myers; Frank Pakenham (Lord Longford); Geoffrey Fisher, Bishop of London; Dr T G Dunning of the Baptist Union; Joseph Thorp.
Format	Mixed
Language	English

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