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...Olle and Barbro Stahl live in Stockholm's working-class Stora Essingen District. Every morning Olle, 32, kisses Barbro goodbye at the door of their flat and drives his Volkswagen to the city's Vantor parish church, where he is a curate. Barbro, 30, spends an hour or so with her son Krister and then goes across her garden to the Essinge parish church, where she is assistant pastor...
...male clergy. Outside Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholicism, however, the desperate need for clergy has given many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
...ordination. Her clerical duties are long and tiring. Lutheran ministers in Sweden are also civil servants, responsible for recording all births, marriages and deaths. She has visits from parishioners in search of spiritual help, spends most of her evenings on youth work or speaking to women's organizations. Barbro also teaches Sunday school and every other week officiates at the parish Communion service...