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...school students is especially impressive when measured against evidence that the quality of teaching they receive is erratic and classroom conditions less than ideal. About 47% of the sisters teaching in high schools have a master's degree; but only one-fourth of the fast-growing body of laywomen teachers in elementary schools have had more than one year of college work. Thanks to the generally low pay scale of Catholic education-laywomen in elementary schools average $3,250 a year-and to lay teachers' widespread conviction that they are treated as second-class citizens, even poorly trained...
Conversely, the Rev. Walter Brueggemann of Missouri's Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ minister, teaches Old Testament to nuns and laywomen studying theology at Roman Catholic Webster College near St. Louis, and an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Donald Winslow, is teaching early church history at Weston College, the Jesuit seminary near Boston. On the student level, seminaries are frequently nondenominational in fact, if not quite yet in name. Harvard's divinity school currently has 14 Catholic students, while Union has 17-including several priests and a nun. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 28 Protestant...
...church reform has been balanced by a desire to conciliate the Curia professionals he must work with in governing the church. Last week, however, Paul indicated that his sympathies still lie with prudent change. He announced that for the first time in church history a select few nuns and laywomen would attend the council as auditors. And to open the third session, he planned to celebrate a pontifical Mass together with 24 bishops from around the world. Concelebration is an ancient practice restored to the Roman rite by the second session's far-reaching liturgical constitution; it is also...
...permanent part of the church, only a handful of orders and mother houses require candidates to take permanent vows. The Kaiserswerth deaconesses, for exam ple, are asked only to serve a minimum of three years, and many sisters do leave to marry or take jobs as laywomen. But thousands of others are permanently enthralled by the call of community, and spend their lives in Christian service...
...College of Medicine, councilor of the American College of Surgeons, onetime president of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons. He weights his book with many a quaint or appalling notion once held about childbirth, admits that posterity may find present-day ideas equally ridiculous. For laywomen & men who want to round out and freshen up their knowledge now, he offers a sound, thoroughgoing outline of modern facts and opinions about birth. Some of them...