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Last week a five-member panel of priests and laymen voted 3 to 2 to find Wendt guilty. The three priests in the majority (the two dissenters were the laymen) urged Washington Bishop William Creighton to "admonish" Wendt and forbid him to permit "any person whose ordination is not in conformity with the canons of the church"-like one of the women priests, for instance-to 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...
...priests, Wendt was the first to open his church to one of them-Australia-born Alison Cheek, who celebrated the Eucharist there last November. Not only had the church's bishops declared the women's ordinations invalid, but Wendt's own bishop, Washington's William Creighton, had issued a "godly admonition" against Wendt's allowing Cheek to celebrate the Eucharist. Last week, as a result of his initiative, Father Wendt found himself the defendant in a rare ecclesiastical trial...
...five judges will now have to decide whether Wendt is guilty. If convicted, he could face ouster from the ministry. His fate is in the hands of Bishop Creighton, who is more likely to issue a reprimand at most, since he did not favor the firing of charges in the first place. Actually, Creighton is so sympathetic to the women's cause that he is practicing discrimination in reverse. Last month he announced that he would henceforth refuse to ordain all males in his diocese until the Episcopal Church opened the priesthood to women...
...their role in Viet Nam's continuing tragedy. Emerson, now a freelance writer, wrote, "I wonder if their dreams are dark and ugly things, if any of them trembled and turned away from the television films of Vietnamese refugees weeping, pleading, talking to themselves." Did they? General Creighton W. Abrams died last September. The ten others showed no signs of trembling and have turned away to other tasks...
Died. General Creighton Abrams, 59, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1968 to 1972 and Army Chief of Staff (see THE NATION...