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Runcie sympathized with those who felt "moral scandal" over the exclusion of women. He admired those of the 619 current female priests he had met in the Anglican branches that have ordained them. (The U.S. has 474; Canada, 97; New Zealand, 40; Hong Kong, 4; Uganda, 3; and Kenya, 1.) But, Runcie continued, Scripture and church tradition are "highly dis couraging to the idea." Saying that he has "consistently driven down the middle of the road," he soothingly advocated "gradualism," with more experience of women as ordained deacons or lay ministers before any change is made...
...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...
Many Protestant denominations now admit women to the ministry. But the English decision to move in the same direction will have broad influence within the Anglican Communion, which has something of a patchwork priesthood. Some bishops refuse to recognize women ordained by others, and some branches, including England for the moment, do not allow the women to perform priestly duties when they enter as visitors...
...black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into the clergy, rising rapidly in the Anglican Church in southern Africa and becoming Bishop of Lesotho...
...T.S.P.M. was revived by 1980 under the leadership of Nanjing's Bishop Ding Guangxun, 68, a former Anglican. His T.S.P.M. has had an uphill struggle in seeking to regain control of Chinese Protestantism, a battle complicated by a woefully small number of church buildings to accommodate worshipers. The T.S.P.M. estimates there are 3 million Protestants in the country, about the same number as the official count of Catholics. But the respected Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong claims that house-church members swell the Protestant total to 30 million or more. Privately, some Chinese officials say the figure...