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...your women keep silence in the churches," said St. Paul (I Corinthians 14:34). But Christ put women very near the center of things, and they have played a mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...select the books and manuscripts most valuable to scholars. The Vatican's indexes, however, often gave only sketchy descriptions of the various books, and it was necessary to consult scores of experts in all sorts of fields from medicine to mathematics, astrology to astronomy, Roman civil to medieval canon law. Meanwhile, there was the problem of equipment. In 1951 the U.S. Air Force was buying up most of the film available in Europe, and the only company that could produce the proper developer ("We were developing small rolls by hand, but you can't make any speed that...
Except for a few short trips, Darwin emerged from Down House only for his funeral (1882) in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was terrific: all sat in awe as the coffin of the archfiend, "borne by Huxley, Hooker, Wallace, Lubbock, James Russell Lowell, Canon Ferrar, an Earl, two Dukes, and the President of the Royal Society," was carried in amid the angelic chanting of choirboys. Fortunately, there was a living Darwin present, his son William, to give the ceremony a characteristically Darwinian touch. The abbey was very drafty, so William, "with the respect shown by all Darwins for the possible invasion...
...mixture of farce and melodrama, the play is full of sweetness and vinegar. But not until the third act did O'Casey's anticlerical lines provoke the gallery into boos, hisses and shouts. When a pompous canon told some of the characters: "The Church is ashamed of you, the bishop is ashamed of you, and I am ashamed of you," somebody bellowed from the gallery, "And we are ashamed of you!" Protests also rose when O'Casey's unorthodox priest (a sympathetic character) urged a girl to seek release from her "foolish vows" of chastity...
Spirit & Substance. The University of Bologna has much strength to offer, both in spirit and scholarly substance. Although its exact origins are lost in the mists of 11th century history, during the 13th century Bologna attracted as many as 10,000 students a year to study canon and civil law, rhetoric and composition. Organized into 35 separate "Nations," foreign and Italian students hired their own professors, elected their rectors and reigned supreme on all nonacademic matters. Later, branching out in the arts and sciences, Bologna over the centuries mothered some of Christendom's greatest intellectuals, e.g., Dante, Petrarch, Copernicus...