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Bruskewitz, one of only two U.S. bishops who forbids altar girls to assist at Mass, is the first American hierarch in more than 30 years to order a mass excommunication--an edict that prohibits Catholics from receiving the sacraments. His action has sparked dissent not only from area parishioners such as Jean and John Krejci, a former nun and former priest who said they would ignore the order, but also from church-law experts like Father James Coriden of Washington Theological Union, in Silver Spring, Maryland, who called the bishop's action, "harmful, wrong and canonically invalid...
...reject women bishops as well. The world leader of Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, has been forced willy-nilly to join the rejectionists in his role as Primate of the Church of England. Runcie declared last month that unless church law changes, neither he nor any other English hierarch may recognize a woman bishop or the priests she ordains. Communion between the English and American churches survives, Runcie stated, but will now be restricted. The leader of the antiwomen forces, London's Bishop Graham Leonard, says that Harris' election will have a "profound and divisive effect" throughout Anglicanism...
...paper, then, the Dalai Lama is a living incarnation of a Buddha, the hierarch of a government-in-exile and a doctor of metaphysics. Yet the single most extraordinary thing about him may simply be his sturdy, unassuming humanity. The Living God is, in his way, as down to earth as the hardy brown oxfords he wears under his monastic robes, and in his eyes is still the mischief of the little boy who used to give his lamas fits with his invincible skills at hide-and-seek. He delights in tending his flower gardens, looking after wild birds, repairing...
...Iakovos of Houston-evangelical, reformist, emphasizing his points with exhortations from the Apostle Paul -seemed something of a departure from the ambitious hierarch who has made himself so visible on the ecumenical circuit in his 13 years as Primate of the Americas. "I have not always talked this way," he conceded in an interview with TIME'S Mayo Mohs. For years his passion was ecumenism, his hope to lead a union of the Orthodox churches in the U.S. But now, says Iakovos, "the trend is not to fight for power and supremacy: it is to fight the inequities...
...Church of England's second ranking hierarch, the Archbishop of York, spoke too of Germany. In June he had cried: "We are fighting against cruelty, tyranny and treachery in their most detestable forms. That is why we cannot agree with the Pope when he coupled together those who commenced the war with those who prolong it, or when he suggests a negotiated peace." While remaining stern, he ended on a softer note. Said he last week: "For us to accept into full fellowship an offender who has committed wrongs against God and man, who still exults in his wickedness...