Word: bishop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acceptance for the ordination of homosexuals. In 1972 the Northern California Conference of the United Church of Christ ordained the first avowed gay to the ministry of an established denomination. The Episcopal Church has one outspokenly lesbian deacon, Ellen Barrett. 30, ordained last December. Said Paul Moore Jr., the Bishop of New York, after Barrett's ordination: "Historically many of the finest clergy in our church have had this personality structure, but only recently has the social climate made it possible for some to be open about...
Some 35,000 American nuns and 10,000 priests-even a brilliant bishop-left their ministries, and sometimes even the church, in a great exodus. Some of them left explicitly to marry, others out of disillusionment or loss of faith, still others because they believed they could serve God or humanity more effectively in the then celebrated "secular city." There are fewer new priests to replace those who left. Seminary enrollment, at a high of nearly 49,000 in 1964, fell to a low of 17,200 in 1975. Only this year has there been a modest upturn-an increase...
...Dilemma for Pope and Bishop...
...number of bishops are acutely aware of the problem, and have adopted a more pastoral, less authoritarian style. During an annual "walk for vocations" Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, the first Hispanic-American archbishop in the U.S., strolls along the street in jeans and a sweater with the teenagers of his diocese. Bishop Charles Buswell of Pueblo, Colo., a feisty innovator who parish-hops his diocese on Sundays, introduced himself to a five-year-old girl at a recent Mass as "Charlie." When he came down the church aisle at the end of Mass, the little girl shouted, "Nice...
...that the pastor would make. Toward the end of the Viet Nam War the council decided to install an American flag beside the altar. "I accepted it although I put myself on record as not being for it," shrugs Harrer. Last year the council sent Walter Kellenberg, the conservative bishop of Rockville Centre, a petition urging that the church permit laicized priests to act as teachers or counselors, and that divorced-and-re-married Catholics be allowed to receive Communion under certain conditions...