Word: ordainment
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...Courts are not a budgeting agency," says Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Paul Freund. "They see problems through a keyhole. What they ordain in the way of expenditures is not correlated with expenditures for other needs." To clean up state prisons, judges in Alabama, Rhode Island, Oklahoma and Louisiana have decreed elaborate instructions on food handling, hospital operations, recreation facilities, sanitation, laundry, painting and plumbing, including the number of inmates per toilet. In Virginia, a federal judge overruled a school-board ban on the publication of a high school poll on birth control; in New Mexico, a judge ruled that...
...bishops were for it. The laity endorsed it too. But the rank-and-file clergy of the Church of England vehemently opposed the idea. So, as English Anglicans held their autumn General Synod in the white-domed Church House behind Westminster Abbey last week, a proposal to ordain women to the priesthood was defeated...
Such heterogeneity can make for schism. But Anglicanism has also been described by a Lutheran theologian as "the most elastic church in all of Christendom." Last week the Anglicans acted true to form, weaving a middle way on the vexatious issue of whether women should be ordained as priests. Meeting at their once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, bishops from all over the world voted 316 to 37, with 17 abstentions, to let each national church choose whether or not to ordain women priests, as long as dissenting voices are considered before any changes are made. On creating...
...within the church and ecumenism without. Some diehards held that female Apostles were absent from Scripture and that since priests who administer the Sacrament represent Christ, they should be, like him, male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly since Anglicans like to consider themselves a kind of ecumenical bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The greatest...
...United Church of Christ (1,801,000 members). Under local option, the heirs of the Puritans chose to ordain the nation's first openly homosexual clergyman, William Johnson, in 1972. The church has set no national policy on ordination, but an agency is conducting a long-range study. United Church People for Biblical Witness, organized in April, is at work against a new denominational study guide that takes a tolerant view of homosexual behavior. f United Methodist Church (9,861,000 members). A church agency proposed that the 1976 General Conference repeal a four-year-old policy statement that...