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...bishops were for it. The laity endorsed it too. But the rank-and-file clergy of the Church of England vehemently opposed the idea. So, as English Anglicans held their autumn General Synod in the white-domed Church House behind Westminster Abbey last week, a proposal to ordain women to the priesthood was defeated...
Founded in the 6th century, St. Catherine's monastery sits at the foot of Mount Sinai, atop which, according to biblical tradition, the Lord gave Moses the Ten Commandments. In 1946 one adventurous visitor to this Greek Orthodox abbey, which then was 100 miles from the nearest town of any consequence, was shocked to learn that the monks had not yet heard of World War II. He was even more astounded to discover that some of them had never heard of World...
Playing up at number two due to the absence of Martha Roberts, sophomore Meg Meyer improved on Richmond's performance in dropping but two games in her speedy two set win. Freshmen at three, four, and five, Abbey Meiselman, Kristen Mertz and Diedre Wilde also triumphed with consummate ease, dropping only four, two, and four games respectively...
...modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled for a three-month tour of the U.S., including another visit to New York and culminating in a return to London for a one-night stand at Westminster Abbey...
...bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...