Word: ordainment
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Williams said that many denominations new ordain women although few women actually have parishes. He said most women therefore substitute studies in education and other fields for courses in pastoral care...
When first this order was ordain'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth, Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage, Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; Not fearing death, not shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes...
...himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster Dulles, who argued for the right of a Presbytery to determine the qualifications for ordination...
Bishop Bowers will return this summer to his Accra diocese (pop. 1,311,000), where the number of Catholics has risen in the last 14 years from 12,333 to 33,800. But before he goes back to Africa he will visit Bay St. Louis again, to ordain two Negro priests. That will be another first for St. Augustine's Seminary: the first time in the church's U.S. history that Negro seminarians have ever been ordained by a Negro bishop...
...permitted to transport himself and one friend through a dark steamy atmosphere for the better part of four hours; that is a matter of individual taste. But when the regattas consider it their duty to put themselves in command of a public stretch of river front and to ordain the locations from which members of various organizations shall be permitted to view a public athletic spectacle then they have overstepped their bounds. They have not be thought themselves where they are. Impressed with the organized fun of a Hammonasset Day, imbued with the planned debauchery of a Winter Carnival they...