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  Canon John Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Collins (1905-1982) was an Anglican clergyman who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom.
Canon Collins was strongly opposed to the spread of nuclear weapons, and was one of many on the left in Britain who believed that it was unnecessary and wrong for Britain to own such weapons.
The Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa (CCETSA) is a charity founded in 1981.
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 John Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canon John Collins, (1905–1982), U.K. radical Anglican cleric
John Collins (governor), (1776–1822), American manufacturer and Governor of Delaware.
John Collins (delegate) (1717–1795), Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress
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 TRIBUTE TO CANON COLLINS
But Canon Collins is a man of action; he was determined to do something positive against the evil that he had recognized and so, with unflagging energy and dedication, he succeeded in building up around himself the organization well-known today in the United Nations, the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa.
Canon Collins continued, by means of sermons, writings and public meetings, to try to arouse the British public to the reality of what was happening in South Africa.
Canon Collins and his organization were able to assist a great number of people to escape and re-establish themselves elsewhere.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/solidarity/collins.html   (3122 words)

  
 Canon Law vs Religious Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canon 752 says that "the Christian faithful" are required to submit their minds and wills to all doctrines declared by the Pope, or the college of bishops, and to be careful to avoid anything that disagrees with those doctrines.
Canon 1366 says that "parents" are to be punished if they allow their children to be educated or baptized in "a non-Catholic religion." The reference to baptism shows that this means Christians.
According to Canon 665 (Section 2), monks and nuns who leave their religious community without permission, desiring to get away from the power of their superiors, are to be "sought out" in order to "help" them return and "persevere" in their vocation.
www.catholicconcerns.com /canonlaw.html   (1640 words)

  
 Jones & DeLoach Family History Material   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John COLLINS was born in 1641 in <, Isle Of Wight, Virginia>.
John Jr COLLINS was born in 1682 in <, Isle Of Wight, VA>.
She was married to John DRYDEN Esq in 1553 in Of Canous, Ashby, Northhampton, Eng.
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 Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa
John Collins, priest and political crusader, was Canon of St Paul's Cathedral for 33 years.
Collins was vehemently opposed to the use of nuclear weaponry and when CND was launched in 1958 he became its chairman.
Canon Collins died in 1982, his vision of religious faith in social action achieved beyond expectation, and the lives of the thousands he helped a testimony to his work.
www.canoncollins.org.uk /about/aboutHistoryJohnCollins.shtml   (679 words)

  
 John Collins
John Collins entered the Church and during the Second World War became Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Collins and his Christian Action group raised funds to help support the families and dependants of ANC members imprisoned by the South African government.
Collins was disgusted by what he heard and saw in South Africa and this only intensified his campaign against apartheid.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REcollins.htm   (674 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Dame Diana Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Dame Diana Collins, who has died aged 85, was the widow of Canon John Collins, the controversial Canon of St Paul's Cathedral with an international reputation for his leadership of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British campaign against apartheid in South Africa.
Diana Collins was, in fact, more intellectually able than her husband, and combined this with a persuasive charm which helped to smooth situations made difficult by his hasty decision-making and somewhat abrasive style.
Again, John Collins assumed the public leadership of the new movement, but she served on its women's committee and was involved in the Aldermaston marches.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/27/db2701.xml   (870 words)

  
 Ministries at St. John's Cathedral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cathedrals such as St. John's bestow two honorific titles to their leaders: Deans, who are highly capable spiritual, intellectual, and temporal leaders of a large and multifaceted parish corporation; and Canons, ordained or secular leaders who have demonstrated great faith and accomplishment in their endeavors on behalf of the Cathedral community.
Moreover, the deans of St. John's all have played key roles in the development of the Episcopal Church in New Mexico and in the growth of the City of Albuquerque.
(2) Canon Commissary for the province of Canterbury
www.stjohnsabq.org /History/DeansCanons.htm   (475 words)

  
 Saint John's Abbey. Ordination Jubiliarians 2001.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
COLLEGEVILLE--Ten Benedictine priests of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, who have served in parishes of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the Diocese of Crookston, and the Diocese of Duluth are celebrating significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood.
After a 34-year association with Saint John's Preparatory School as teacher of religion, Gregorian Chant and director of dramatics and as headmaster of the school, he served as the pastor of St. Bartholomew's Church, Wayzata, from 1973-79 and as associate pastor of St. Bernard's Church in St.Paul from 1979-94.
In 1967 he founded the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John's and is its president.
www.saintjohnsabbey.org /news/01ojubilees.html   (1006 words)

  
 The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
They would now belong to the clergy, and this is an advancement at once ecclesial and social which would, they hope, enhance their bureaucratic efficiency within official circles, facilitate their progress through the halls of power, and open eventually to an equal access for women to governance in the church.
John Calvin was hugely influential here, and Elsie Anne McKee has provided a definitive account of his creative influence.
A copy both of this volume and of the petition was presented to John XXIII in September 1962, just one month before the Council opened in October.
www.womenpriests.org /called/collins1.asp   (4591 words)

  
 Guardian | Judge of principle shows he's his father's son
Mr Justice Collins presided over the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) when it said last week that the suspect had been detained on evidence that was "wholly unreliable and should not have been used to justify detention".
It is not the first time that the son of Canon John Collins, founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and critic of apartheid, has found himself in direct conflict with the home secretary of the day.
Despite being the son of the radical canon of St Paul's Cathedral, he is no lifelong member of the judicial "human rights lobby" that Mr Blunkett attacked in reaction to one of his rulings.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4883540-103685,00.html   (723 words)

  
 CND - CND IN THE NEWS
After John Collins's death in 1982, she wrote a moving account of their marriage, Partners in Protest (1998), which is also both an important study of the great protest movements and a highly skilled piece of writing.
Collins showed great ingenuity in organising the safe transit of large sums to the members of the African National Congress even when IDAF was declared an illegal organisation in South Africa.
Canon John Collins was so committed to his campaigns that his directly ecclesiastical work at St Paul's suffered.
www.cnduk.org /pages/cnews/030522.html   (3396 words)

  
 A REFORMING CHURCH WITH AN UNREFORMED LEADERSHIP
As Lord John Acton's (1834-1902) famous aphorism pointed out in an 1887 letter to the Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' 6 Acton was a liberal Catholic who had argued that the definition of papal infallibility was inopportune.
John L. Allen, in a profile of Cardinal Josef Ratzinger in the National Catholic Reporter, makes the point that the Prefect of the CDF is interested in the long-term, in shaping "the way the church thinks about a controversy 200 years from now."
John Paul II asked for this himself in the encyclical Ut Unum Sint (25 May, 19951.
ncronline.org /NCR_Online/documents/Collins.htm   (5271 words)

  
 frontline: apocalypse!: apocalypticism explained: jesus & john the baptist
Collins is a Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Jesus and John the Baptist I think can accurately be described as either as eschatological or even apocalyptic prophets.
What John actually said, who John actually was, what his message was, is very difficult to recover at this point, but his role in the Christian scenario certainly has been that of foretelling the coming of the Messiah, and that then is a step toward the ultimate triumph of righteousness.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/jesusjohnbaptist.html   (1967 words)

  
 BOOK REVIEWS: White Lies - Canon Collins & apartheid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Founder of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF), Collins and his team of helpers raised and distributed almost 100 million pounds in donor funds, to assist over 45000 dependants of South African prisoners and ex-prisoners from the early 1950s to the 1990s.
Collins, born into a conservative British family, influenced by his reading of Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country and his contact with hid fellow Anglican Fr Trevor Huddleston, became hugely involved in anti-apartheid work–both through speaking out publicly against apartheid injustice and through secretly providing legal and welfare assistance to South African political activists.
In what was known as "Programme One", Canon Collins liaised with a Mister X, whose identity was known only to one or two people.
www.thesoutherncross.co.za /book_reviews/whitelies.htm   (625 words)

  
 Church Times - WHITE LIES: Canon Collins and the secret war against apartheid
The great noise that John Collins made with CND, and the great silence he kept with DAF have alike merged into mere “protest” during a particular time.
Collins himself was one of those hyperactive priests who appear now and then to give the Church a good shake-up with their radical zeal and unanswerable common sense.
Collins did all three, as well as secretly filtering millions of pounds to the Cape to pay for the defence of those who might otherwise have been executed.
www.churchtimes.co.uk /churchtimes/website/pages.nsf/httppublicpages/B31B352CA5762FF580256FCC005A4F1D   (507 words)

  
 Bible Glossary
It was formulated at the first ecumenical council of Nicea in 325, it was expanded at the second ecumenical council at Constantinople in 381 to defend the deity of the Holy Spirit, and it was made inalterable by local councils at the third ecumenical council at Ephesus in 431.
In the first century—and in the preceding centuries—there were two canons of scripture among the Jews.
The Palestinian canon is in Hebrew and Aramaic, was used by Jews in Palestine.
www.kencollins.com /glossary/Bible.htm   (2472 words)

  
 The Canon and the Creed
The wording and the concepts in the Nicene Creed come from the New Testament—in fact, one of the most important debates at the Council of Nicea concerned whether it is proper to include a word in the Nicene Creed that does not occur in the New Testament.
On the other hand, at the time that the Church issued the official canon of the New Testament, it customarily compared writings to the Nicene Creed to determine if they were orthodox.
The four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are so well established in the Church that the pagan public knows about them and ridicules Christians for not getting their story straight.
www.kencollins.com /bible-c1.htm   (1034 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | Antony Sher: Into Africa
The woman in London is Ethel de Keyser, who runs the Canon Collins Educational Trust, a charity which funds southern African students through postgraduate courses both in their own countries and here in Britain - on the understanding that they plough their knowledge back into their homeland.
But Collins was one of those churchmen who apply their calling directly to the world they're living in, vividly and fearlessly, and not just to the ancient teachings of the Bible.
When Collins died a year later, she suggested this new venture be named the Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa.
education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,915851,00.html   (2449 words)

  
 Collins--Africana Library, Cornell University
Told by loving sister Ella Little Collins, who knew Malcolm X better than anyone else, and her son, Rodnell P. Collins, to whom Malcolm X was a much-loved and admired uncle and mentor, Seventh Child adds immeasurably to our knowledge of the man.
A project started in the late 1960s by Collins' mother, Ella Little Collins, the memoir was inherited by the son upon his mother's death in 1996.
[Library Journal] Collins is the son of an older half-sister of the man born Malcolm Little, who became internationally known as Malcolm X. Here he mixes commentary, history, and family recollections to produce a revealing perspective on the thoughts and actions of the convict turned human rights advocate and martyr.
www.library.cornell.edu /africana/newbooks/collins.html   (977 words)

  
 Mediaweb:news service, PR service, South African media list and journalists online
White Lies: Canon Collins and the secret war against apartheid by Denis Herbstein (HSRC Press) traces the fascinating history of the colourful John Collins, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, and his long-term relationship with the liberation fighters of South Africa.
The Canon would liaise with a shadowy figure known only as Mister X, who would in turn contact a respected legal firm in London, who would then speak to lawyers in South Africa.
Canon John Collins may not be one of the best-known heroes of the South African struggle — the clandestine nature of his work prevented this — but in White Lies one is given a clear picture of just what an incredible contribution he and his team made.
www.mediaweb.co.za /ArticleDetail.asp?ID=2831   (1011 words)

  
 Rev. Dr. Paul Collins' Response to the Observations on his book Papal Power by an anonymous CDF consulter
He is the President of the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, and commenting on "the Collins case", and another public ecclesiastical dispute here, he said: "The Catholic church is committed to truth, but discovering truth is a process not an accomplishment.
I would suggest that Cardinal John Henry Newman's notion of the development of doctrine is actually closer to the historical view of faith.
Certainly, I am critical of the First Vatican Council's definition of primacy precisely because it is couched in canonical, legal terms and has actually neglected the rich theology of primacy that can be found especially in the first millennium of church history.
www.usao.edu /~facshaferi/collinscdf.htm   (5475 words)

  
 The Discernment Ministries
Early in 1962 a dozen "leading churchmen" (of whom, needless to say, one was Canon John Collins) published an "appeal to the British Government and people" urging that Britain should be prepared to renounce her independent nuclear deterrent.
Sir John Marks Templeton, the founder of the Prize, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University and was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts, which included his endowment of Templeton College, Oxford.
John Tuit and other church officials brought a class action suit against the various WCG entities for "siphoning off the property and assets of the Church and appropriating them to their own personal use and benefit on a massive scale amounting to several million dollars per year." (Tuit, p.
watch.pair.com /discernment.html   (6802 words)

  
 TIME.com: Preacher for the Empire's Parish -- Jun. 23, 1967 -- Page 1
Humanist John Colet, who held the post from 1505 to 1519, was the learned friend of Erasmus and More.
John Donne, during the reign of James I, uttered sermons from St. Paul's pulpit that will ring in human ears as long as the bell tolls for mankind.
Theologically and politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,839543,00.html   (574 words)

  
 St. John in the Wilderness Adult Education and Formation
Thus Mark the evangelist begins what the majority of scholars believe is the first gospel written, the first written witness to the good news of the life and death of Jesus.
Papias, a bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor early the in second century, identified the author as "Peter's interpreter," felt to be a reference to John Mark, who is mentioned in Acts as an early companion of Paul and Barnabas (Acts 12:12, 25; 15:37-41).
Whether the author of the gospel is indeed John Mark is debated by modern scholars.
www.stjohnadulted.org   (3807 words)

  
 Canon U.S.A-Press Release Schedule
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Canon also works to protect the environment through its award-winning Clean Earth Campaign, which includes developing energy-efficient products, remanufacturing and refurbishing equipment, workplace conservation and the protection of endangered species and their habitats through donations and employee volunteerism.
www.usa.canon.com /templatedata/pressrelease/01_june_gho_50th_anniv.prt   (1120 words)

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