Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women ministers in Sweden, and last week ' Barbro was refused permission to preach in the cathedral of Linkoping. Another handicap is her tranquil good looks. "This is not a suitable attribute for a priest," thundered one church magazine after her ordination. "Her beauty might awaken wrong feelings in male parishioners...
...your women keep silence in the churches," enjoined St. Paul, and Christian tradition is strongly on the side of an all-male clergy. Outside Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholicism, however, the desperate need for clergy has given many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
Barbro, on the other hand, finds that as a woman minister she is able to communicate with young people, especially girls, "who are able to talk to me about things they could not tell a male priest." Barbro is well liked by her parishioners who seem to share her contempt for the Pauline shibboleth. "The time we live in " she says, "requires that both men and women help carry out and spread the teachings of Christ. Tradition is to help people, and not to bind them...
...over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions. In a fury the Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against allies they had always loathed. Out of manholes, cellars, caves and sewers crammed with smuggled guns and ammo they came storming, and in four...
...firm ones. Their cliques of four or five are as Final as anything institutionalized. Not that they are unfriendly to people outside their clique--if anything, .a constant friendliness is inherent to the style. They are cordial to the point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male they would be shouting at football games; as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When ased what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...