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...Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts it. But the means by which these saints are identified...
...referring to her own imminent consecration as the first woman bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church. But traditionalists weren't upset just about Harris' sex. She also happened to be a black, non- college-educated divorcee with some fairly radical beliefs. While still a laywoman, Harris led the procession at the 1974 protest ritual in which her church's first women priests were illicitly ordained. Continuing to rail against the church for its racism, sexism and homophobia, Harris, who used to work as the top public relations executive at Sun Oil, had become a champion of the downtrodden...
While still a laywoman, Harris led the procession at the 1974 protest ritual in which her church's first women priests were illicitly ordained. During eight years in the priesthood, she has developed a reputation as a bright, articulate activist. Harris, who will be her church's 29th black bishop, is the convener of a coalition of minority and social-action caucuses that seeks to prod the Episcopal Church into what Harris calls "an increased advocacy role and some real risk taking." A prime risk that she favors: acceptance of practicing homosexual clergy...
...task force was chaired by Rochester, N.Y., Laywoman Virginia Davidson, wife of a retired Kodak executive and mother of four. The members, selected to represent various views in the church, included an openly homosexual young alumnus of Yale Divinity School and Historical Theologian Richard Lovelace, an articulate conservative from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. With typical Presbyterian thoroughness, they prepared a 198-page report that examines psychological data, social currents and especially the 13 Bible passages that deal with homosexuality...
Conservatives pleaded that the church wait for a broader agreement before taking the momentous step. "We are a house divided. The good people in the pews back home have not decided this issue," said Connecticut Laywoman Ann Robinson during the deputies' mannerly debate. But Canon R. Stewart Wood of Indianapolis said further delay would "let the guts of the church turn and turn and turn...