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...church affairs is open to "illegitimate or uncontrolled use"; the statement, however, also notes that Catholicism is trying to overcome the "juridical outlook" of the past. It avoids such specific obstacles to union as the Catholic ban on contraception or the recent decision by Anglicans in some countries to ordain women priests...
Last week the gays received a setback, when the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in Baltimore voted that it would be "injudicious if not improper" to ordain homosexuals. After a two-hour session the church reaffirmed its position that "the practice of homosexuality is a sin." However, the delegates also voted to undertake a study of the "perplexing" question of homosexuality, leaving the door open a crack for gays in the future. Said the final report: "We do not believe that a position taken in any period sets forth the final understanding of His Word to the Church...
There is already impassioned talk of schism, whether the convention says yes or no. If ordination wins, the bishops may propose a local-option solution like that adopted by the Anglican Church of Canada, where each diocese has the right to decide whether to ordain women as priests. Chicago's Bishop James Montgomery says he would not bar ordinations in his diocese, but he might refuse to conduct them himself...
...influenced by Christianity and Judaism, which have traditionally taught that homosexuality is unnatural and its practice sinful. Though all the major churches and branches of Judaism have increasingly come to recognize that the homosexual's dilemma is a matter for pastoral care and understanding, they continue to refuse to ordain avowed homosexuals (with the exception of the United Church of Christ, which has ordained one openly gay minister...
...more likely to issue a reprimand at most, since he did not favor the firing of charges in the first place. Actually, Creighton is so sympathetic to the women's cause that he is practicing discrimination in reverse. Last month he announced that he would henceforth refuse to ordain all males in his diocese until the Episcopal Church opened the priesthood to women...