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...Boston as well as the rest of the country, women are trying to increase their role within the Church. There is even considerable pressure now to ordain women, notes Father Thomas F. Powers, director of campus ministries for the archdiocese...
...pleased to see your coverage of the Jewish Theological Seminary's decision to ordain women rabbis [Nov. 7]. However, the Conservative movement did not "topple a Jewish tradition," as your article implied. The seminary's action was preceded by years of discussion and research, and by the gathering of the written opinions from our leading rabbis on the permissibility of ordaining women. Jewish law has always been pushed toward granting greater equality for women in areas as diverse as inheritance, marriage and control over their own sexuality. Seen in this light, the seminary is simply asserting its responsibility...
...Conservative seminary votes to ordain women rabbis...
...make offerings to the false idol Nielsen, which is an hungry beast. Give us but a sign, a word, a story idea, that we may please thee and the 2,300 houses of the children of Nielsen." And then the Lord God spoke unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission of my messengers Peter and Paul. And to you, ABC, I say that you shall relate the story of my brave people at the Battle of Masada." And the third elder, the Pharisee of NBC, asked: "What about me, Lord...
...your interview with Mr. Reagan, he says that "the Federal Government was created by the states." The Constitution does not proclaim "We the states," but, "We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution." While the Reagan thesis had its supporters in the early Republic, the question is generally presumed to have been settled at Appomattox...