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...Church of England is consumed with a landmark vote, scheduled next November, on whether to allow women priests. That innovation deeply divides the worldwide Anglican Communion, in which 14 of 34 branches now ordain women to the priesthood. The same issue clouded the ecumenical scene last week when Anglicanism's Primate, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, visited Rome for his first summit meeting with Pope John Paul. Carey, who did not repeat his publicized objections to Rome's hard line on birth control, emerged to describe the encounter of nearly one hour as "excellent, excellent...
...already have it, actually, in that whenever I ordain or a bishop ordains, we read out the statements "Do you believe that the Bible contains all things necessary for salvation? Will you accept the doctrine of the Church of England? Will you obey the bishop?" And so on. People know they are actually going along with the whole package, which includes the trustworthiness of the Bible, its centrality in terms of authority and tradition and reason. So we can't really pick and choose...
...Island's Bishop George Hunt, is proposing that the church endorse the view that homosexuality is a "God-given" state and that gay relationships are "holy, life-giving and grace-filled." The panel wants the church to develop blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples and allow local bishops to ordain actively homosexual clergy...
...should young Nicholas' anguish have a direct bearing on Payne's punishment? Will a Supreme Court decision upholding Payne's sentence create a climate where the wails of a murder victim's relatives will ordain vengeance in the form of capital punishment? During the oral argument, Chief Justice William Rehnquist probably reflected his own views when he asked Payne's attorney, "Are you suggesting that the jury's feeling of sympathy or perhaps outrage at the crime and what it's left the victim with is not a permissible factor...
...happens, the range of Jewish religious opinion on homosexuality is very broad. Some movements within Judaism, notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, not only accept homosexuality but also ordain gay men and lesbian women as rabbis...