CHURCH AND STATE.
NORWICH COMMUNION CASE,
fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 20. Tlio House of Lords unanimously dismissed, with costs, Canon Thompson's appeal in the Norwich communion case.
The question involved in the above caso is whether a clergyman of tho Church of England can refuse Holy Communion, to a person who has married his deceased's wife's sister is now being considered by the House of Lords. Mr. Banister, a parishioner at Baton, in the diocese of Norwich, married his deceased wife's sister in Canada just before the Royal Ascent was given to tho Deceased Wife's Sister Act. When lie and his wife returned home Canon Thompson, the vicai' of Eaton, refused to admit them to Communion. Tho matter came before the Court of Arches end Canon. Thompson was admonished not to repeat his conduct. In order to bring (ho matter before the civil courts. Canon Thompson then obtained a rule nisi against the Dean of Arches, but a majority of the Divisional Court which heard the rule decided against him. The Court of Appeal affirm-, ed- this decision, and .Canon Thompson then appealed to the House of Lord?.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 22 June 1912, Page 7
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189CHURCH AND STATE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 22 June 1912, Page 7
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