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When I first saw the cover, a tear ran down my cheek. With the help of the American people, Gerald Ford will lift this country out of its bind and once again instill the love of democracy in the hearts of Americans everywhere...
Just two days after the ruling, Beebe again invited two women, Alison Cheek and Carter Heyward, to celebrate Communion, and told TIME he will continue to do so no matter what church officials decide. In Washington, Wendt's church announced that Cheek will join its staff and preside at Communion on July 27, even though the bishop there does not recognize her ordination...
...last summer, the church's House of Bishops declared the ordinations invalid. To the Rev. William Wendt, the ardently progressive rector of the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., the bishops' ruling was an inescapable challenge. He permitted one of the women, Alison Cheek, to celebrate the Eucharist in his parish. Soon, 18 priests in the diocese brought charges of disobedience against Wendt, setting the stage for a rare ecclesiastical trial (TIME...
...function as a minister in his parish. At a press conference, Wendt called his sentence "a real slap on the wrist" and said that he would appeal the conviction or seek a new trial. He also cited the two lay judges' forceful dissent supporting the validity of Cheek's priesthood: "A great moment in church history is before us, and the majority of this court is allowing it to pass by." Even so, the controversy over whether the church should admit female priests is certain to continue into late 1976, when the church hopes to settle the issue...
...tongue of Harvard Business School Professor Andrew Brimmer was firmly in cheek last week as he greeted leaders of the nation's power companies gathered in Denver for the annual meeting of the Edison Electric Institute. "So nice to see you," said he, "now that you are feeling better." The salutation drew grim laughter. Utilities are indeed in better financial shape than they were a year or so ago, but their situation is still not exactly healthy...