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...Oriental churches, and by shortening Easter services from 4½ to 3½ hours. Elko's firm administrative methods caused further complaint; diocesan clergy accused him of being a ruthless autocrat, who was averse to discussing problems with priests. Although Ruthenians outside the U.S. are permitted to ordain married men as priests, Elko ignored clerics' complaints and stuck to the letter of a papal decree imposing celibacy on American Ruthenian priests...
...parishioners thereupon became the first Episcopalians in the U.S. to receive communion from a woman. The service took place - where else? - in the diocese of California's experiment-loving Bishop James A. Pike, who is de termined to ordain Mrs. Edwards to the diaconate. A widow with four chil dren, she is now one of about 70 active Episcopal deaconesses authorized by the church to perform social work and teach the catechism...
...believers as priests. Non-Mormons are prone to infer from this that Mormons are segregationists. The church replies that it has a right to set the qualifications of its own priesthood, and that excluding Negroes is no more discriminatory than the refusal of many churches (including the Mormons) to ordain women...
Kitchen-Sink Communion. But Bishop Stockwood has more serious goals than mere shock. Three years ago, he started a night-school seminary to produce worker-priests, and in September will ordain the first class of men engaged in ordinary trades who will thereafter also double as clergy. This challenges the strong tradition that Anglican clergymen should be gentle Establishmentarians from the best schools. And if communicants will not come to church, Communion, Stockwood decided, could go to them; his priests now bring "kitchen-sink Communion" to homes; one such priest, when he needs Communion bread, just nips around...
...continue to ordain known pre-psychotics and schizophrenics," says the Rev. J. Victor Benson, the Lutherans' secretary for psychological services. At a Lutheran-sponsored conference in New York last week, psychologists and psychiatrists from other church bodies agreed with Benson that psychological testing is a valuable tool for assessing future ministers. And whatever mental illness is revealed can be treated by "a competent Christian psychiatrist," or even turned to useful ministerial ends...