Word: bishop
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...Episcopal Church, which has just begun ordaining women as priests, added a new twist to that innovation last week. New York City's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained the Rev. Ellen Barrett, 30, the denomination's first openly committed homosexual priest of either sex. In an unusual last-minute plea to prevent the action, Colorado's Bishop William Frey had wired Colleague Moore: "Ordination of practicing homosexuals does not represent the mind of the church and is plainly contrary to the teachings of Scripture which we have all sworn to uphold...
...even odds on success. There has been little progress toward a Rhodesian settlement since last fall, when Kissinger's whirlwind mission established the fragile basis for talks in Geneva between Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime and four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole (TIME, Nov. 15). For seven frustrating weeks Richard, as chairman of the conference, tried to coax the participants beyond acrimonious haggling. With almost nothing accomplished, the talks recessed for the holidays...
Gazing at the overflow congregation in All Saints' Church, Bishop Donald Davis recited the statement that precedes all Episcopal ordinations: "If any of you know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...
Tickled Pink. Bishop Davis, a guest officiant from Erie, Pa., then went on to make history. At 3:20 p.m. he laid his hands on the frizzy blonde head of the white-robed woman kneeling before him and intoned: "Therefore, Father, through Jesus Christ your Son, give your Holy Spirit to Jacqueline; fill her with grace and power and make her a priest in your church." Some of the 45 priests who joined in the service clothed her in a white chasuble, the outer vestment of her new office...
...TRIP BACK DOWN by JOHN BISHOP...