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...answer was yes. The woman was just one of dozens of parishioners sporting NOW buttons who were refused the Eucharist at St. Brigid's and other Roman Catholic churches in the San Diego area. Surprising as it was, the altar quizzing formed only part of the spectacle at the church. Outside, a crowd of angry feminists joined in a chant: "Not the church. Not the state. Women must decide our fate." Some carried signs that urged: PRAY TO GOD. SHE WILL HELP...
...Catechism covers themes that have always united Protestants and Catholics: the reality of God, the work of Christ, the importance of prayer. Building on years of ecumenical discussion, the book also claims substantial current Protestant-Catholic agreement on previous points of division like Christ's presence in the Eucharist. As for the Reformation's belief in salvation through "grace alone," as against man's good works, the Catechism professes to see little left to argue about. In fact, it contends that "it would certainly have been possible" to unite Protestants and Catholics except for continuing disputes...
...Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass-producing factories...
Episcopal women have been moving up toward priestly rank since 1970, when the church first allowed them to become full-fledged deacons: members of the lower clergy authorized to perform baptism, marriages and other liturgical acts, but not to consecrate the Eucharist or pronounce absolution of sins, which only priests can do. There are now some 120 women deacons...
...familiar stutter, was a colorful man whom Hollywood might have cast in the archiepiscopal role. No evangelist, he was primarily interested in ecumenism, theology and social issues. Appropriately for a High Church man, his major accomplishment was his rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, which led to agreements on the Eucharist and the ministry by a joint theological commission. His major failure, perhaps, was the defeat of his plan to merge with the Methodists, England's third largest church group after the Anglicans and Roman Catholics; the Anglican General Synod turned down Ramsey's proposal...