Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters were much less exotic: doctors, lawyers, army officers, clergymen...
Women have long had some positions of influence in American religion, but now they are gaining in power. The most notable disputes have been over admitting women to equal status as clergymen. Ever since St. Paul's strictures on the subordination of women ("I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men"), Christianity has been patriarchal. Yet Roman Catholic women are now participating in the Mass as lectors, and in the distribution of the Eucharist. Nuns, of course, have undergone an astonishing transformation in the past decade, doffing habits and leaving cloisters to live in the community...
...very natural for Swanson. Coming from a family with four Episcopal clergymen in it, Swanson says, "You're molded to do the things that are important to other members of your family." She recalls her father, the Rt. Rev. Edward R. Welles, being "a little surprised" when she told him her destiny was the priesthood. But he accepted the idea quickly and eventually helped plan and execute the Philadelphia ordinations...
...summer residence outside Rome. Though Big Daddy showed up 20 minutes late for the audience, Pontiff and President met for more than an hour and discussed some of the problems facing Catholic missionaries to Uganda. Chief among them was Amin himself, who has restricted the entry of the clergymen into his country. Afterward, while acting as host at a cocktail party for 160 at the Grand Hotel in Rome, Big Daddy scoffed at any suggestion that he might be worrying about his public image. "I am a big man," he explained. "I don't mind if some people...
Detroit's black Mayor Coleman Young raced to the scene and spent the whole night trying to calm the crowds. So did a number of other officials and clergymen. Young also ordered in some 600 police, armed with riot helmets, nightsticks and tear gas, but under strict orders that "the use of fatal force [is] prohibited unless ... life is endangered." Not a shot was fired, and crowds dispersed at dawn...