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...lack of a defined public platform to fall back upon that Ann would like to see the ordination of women into the priesthood. Almost all discussion concerning the future of women in the Church eventually turns to this question of ordination. Ann feels that a decision to ordain women to the priesthood would both be the most direct way to open up the various positions of power within the Church to women, and the single most dramatic gesture to women everywhere that the Church is willing to go beyond tokenism in its response to a new female consciousness...
Krol's human relations commission is credited with notable progress on poverty and race relations. But the diocese has been unable to ordain a single black priest. A year ago, the local priests' council issued a 60-page booklet listing its past recommendations to the cardinal. He has followed some, but without making any direct response to the council. Many others he has ignored-including recommendations for such widely followed practices as a personnel board to give priests a say in parish placement and diocesan encouragement of parish advisory councils...
...last major Protestant holdout against a female ministry began to weaken this month when a powerful group of international Anglican leaders gave member churches permission to ordain women. At the end of a two-week session in Nairobi, members of the Anglican Consultative Council voted 24 to 22 to "accept the action of any bishop, who, with the approval of his province, decided to admit a woman to the ministry." The decision will affect some 47 million members of the Anglican Communion in 90 countries...
...language of the resolution means that bishops cannot ordain women formally at least until the next General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1973, and possibly not until 1975. But a sympathetic U.S. bishop could conceivably risk the censure of his fellow bishops by ordaining a woman now; individual bishops have the power to do so, and while such an ordination would be unusual, it would be valid. There are at least 15 Episcopal women waiting for ordination, and some bishops are known to favor their cause...
...last week their General Convention approved the ordination of women deacons (see following story). U.S. Lutherans are removing restrictions against women in the ministry even more rapidly. Last June in Minneapolis, the liberal-leaning Lutheran Church in America became the first U.S. Lutheran body to announce that it would ordain women ministers. Late last week the moderate American Lutheran Church, at its own convention in Texas, did likewise. Indeed, the World Council of Churches recently reported that 70 denominations around the world have admitted women to the full ministry of "Word and Sacrament"-allowing them both to preach and preside...