Word: documentation
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...pattern ended with a troublesome letter on women's issues that took nine years to produce. Meeting in Washington, the bishops gave the conservative final version a paltry 55.5% support, far short of the two-thirds needed for approval. The text will now be issued as a mere committee document...
...document also suggested improving classunity by renovating Yard common rooms...
Just as interested are the American Catholic bishops gathering in Washington. For nine years they have tried to produce a coherent document on women to straddle the demands of conservatives in Rome and of feminists in the U.S. At issue is everything from whether women can serve as priests or deacons to whether sexism is "sin." Among the characterizations of the bishops' efforts: "almost laughable" (from the angry left), "an embarrassment" (from the angry right). The document has been diluted so thoroughly that reformers hope that the hierarchy will throw it out and start all over again...
...that because God was incarnate as a man, only men can serve as representatives of Jesus Christ at the altar. In its 1976 Declaration against women priests, the Vatican said that although the incarnation "took place according to the male sex," this does not imply superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin of St. John...
...conservative women in the church: they both distrust the bishops," says Ronda Chervin, the consultant on the U.S. bishop's letter. "The conservatives think the bishops have been bending before the feminists, and the feminists think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress. That version urged rapid study of the idea of allowing women to be deacons...