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...twelve miles from San Salvador, the atmosphere was tentative and tense. And when the two parties came down from their hilltop retreat after more than twelve hours of talks, they seemed no closer to peace than before. In a brief statement summarizing the day's progress, San Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, one of two intermediaries, reported that the two sides had agreed on "a period of tranquillity on the nation's highways between Dec. 22 and Jan. 3." But Rivera y Damas said nothing of any larger agreements or a full Christmas truce and only made...
...legal code isn't simply a list of "Thou shalt nots." The questions the abortion issue raises are perplexing enough in the realm of abstract morality, but trying to translate them into concrete legal doctrines requires a Hercules of jurisprudence. If arrogant abortion foes like New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor actually tried to answer these questions, they would realize that the issue isn't so clear-cut, and perhaps they would be more humble about making political pronouncements...
Tutu, who has been appointed the Archbishop of Johannesberg, is spending the year as a visiting professor at the General Theological Seminary in New York City...
...permitted to sing in parish choirs. So when the General Synod of the Church of England convened a historic session last week in Church House at Westminster Abbey, supporters of a motion to allow women priests had reason to worry. After all, a similar proposal had failed in 1978. Archbishop of York John Habgood, who favored the change, was calling it "deeply divisive." Another liberal, Bishop Hugh Montefiore, had prepared a half-a-loaf amendment to authorize a 20-year "experiment" with women priests that could thereafter be halted. Then, during the mannerly, 4½ hours of speeches, opposition...
Ecumenical complications also loom large, a fact that worries Archbishop Runcie. Since 1970, Anglicans and Roman Catholics have been discussing reunification, while for decades Anglicans and Orthodox churches have also discussed closer ties. But in 1975, the Vatican, forewarning the Anglicans in effect, declared that the all-male priesthood was "an unbroken tradition" that is "based on Christ's example" and "considered to conform to God's plan for his church." If those words allow any leeway, the Eastern Orthodox Church allows none, holding that priesthood for women is impossible. The result: while one long-sought liberal reform...