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...harbored Daniel Berrigan in 1970 when the Jesuit was a fugitive from the FBI. Stringfellow was interested in pursuing what he felt was a vindicating factor in Wendt's action-the validity of the women's ordinations. The national head of the church, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who was subpoenaed for the defense, refused to appear; as a result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor as presiding bishop, John Hines. When Stringfellow asked Hines his opinion of the ordinations...
...brothers," announced Presiding Bishop John Maury Allin of the U.S. Episcopal Church, "the issue before us is not the ordination of women to the priesthood." What was in question last week, at a hastily convened meeting at Chicago's O'Hare International Tower hotel, was the good order and discipline of the Episcopal Church. For an emergency session of the church's House of Bishops, 150 prelates had assembled to discuss what to do about an extraordinary breach of canon law in the 3.1 million member denomination: the ordination of eleven women as priests last month...
Each of the eleven now risks suspension as a deacon for participating in the ordination. Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who just took over administration of the 3.1 million-member church in June and was not even officially informed of the ordination plans, declared that all bishops involved are bound to bar the women from exercising priestly functions. He also summoned the House of Bishops to an emergency session in Chicago next week to discuss the rebellion. The saddened Allin told TIME "The question now before us is not orders, but order...
Screenplay by OSCAR WILLIAMS and MICHAEL ALLIN...
...hours after confirming Allin for a twelve-year term, the House of Deputies took up the proposal to ordain women-a move that Hines had vigorously endorsed in his opening sermon (Allin was opposed). Although a majority of deputies apparently favored the innovation, the complicated system of bloc voting by dioceses resulted in the measure's defeat. The Episcopal Women's Caucus reacted bitterly. "We have been turned down not by God," they said, "but by the Episcopal Church...