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...feeling the pain of their lives, you can't help but be concerned. They have been hit with all kinds of guilt that they are condemned by God." Dignity plans to present its views at the November meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. When the United Methodist Church's Council on Youth Ministries announced a drive to persuade next year's general church conference...
Without Pain. One leading liberationist, Argentine Methodist José Miguez Bonino, worries that the theology may be surfacing in the U.S. and Europe as a trendy "new 'consumer good' in the theological market." But those who espouse it so far do not seem to be faddists, and they do not expect instant change. If anything, liberation theology may well be just too demanding to become a fad. Said one Detroit participant, Beverly Harrison, a professor of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "The liberal in me wants a different world, but the liberal...
...seminary teachers; two are parish assistants; one quit parish work because the lay board did not back her, had a baby, and is now job hunting; one is a counselor and parish assistant; one works with women prisoners; one runs a small religious order and one has become a Methodist minister...
...three children were fathered by Parnell. When the cuckold finally brought down his house on himself, he also brought it down on his rival. Parnell's exertions to save his discredited leadership failed miserably, and soon eroded his health. "The most famous adulterer of the century," as a Methodist minister of the time put it, died in Kitty's arms in 1891, not long after making an honest woman...
...Episcopal hierarchy was outraged when eleven women were ordained-perhaps improperly-as the first female priests in the church last July, but the episode typified a growing push toward clerical equality that is affecting virtually every major denomination. The United Methodist Church has 500 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon...