Word: euchariste
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...year after her disputed ordination to the Episcopal priesthood as one of the "Philadelphia Eleven" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1974), Betty Bone Schiess, 52, finally celebrated the Eucharist publicly for the first time.* But she still had no church assignment. Like her colleagues, she had previously been ordained as a deacon, the highest Episcopal Church office open to women. After the Philadelphia ordination, the vestry of a Syracuse parish offered her the position of associate priest. Schiess resigned her job as director of a senior citizens' center, but was then denied a license for the parish post by Bishop...
...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...
...neighboring ghetto and experimental in its liturgy. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that after eleven women were ordained in Philadelphia last summer as the first female Episcopal 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...
...escalating single-handed the Roman Catholic Church's war on abortion. In a letter read at Masses in San Diego last week, Maher announced that no one in his 512,000-member diocese who publicly admits to membership in an organization that promotes abortion can receive the Eucharist or serve as a lector (lay reader). He specifically cited NOW for its "shameless agitation" on behalf of abortion...
Bishop Maher's position is severe by any measure. Catholic canon law provides that women or doctors who intentionally involve themselves in abortions are automatically excommunicated, but Maher is now denying the Eucharist on the basis of individuals' personal beliefs about the matter. Before it was modified, his outright ban on NOW membership was unusually extreme. Historically, Catholic bans on specific organizations have been rare and have involved only groups like the Masons, which the church opposed for many years as essentially anti-Catholic...