Word: pikes
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Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the minister of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...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...
...Serious Division." Unlike male deacons, for whom the office is normally a one-year prelude to ordination as a priest, deaconesses have not been al lowed to distribute Communion or administer sacraments to the sick. Pike believes that he can change this rule because of a word-switch in canon law made by the church's General Convention last year; women now are "ordered" deaconesses by a bishop, instead of "appointed." The convention also dropped the canonical provision that deaconesses must be single or widowed, but Mrs. Edwards says, "I have no desire to marry again...
Most clerics think that the change is purely verbal and balk at Pike's plan Bishop Francis W. Lickfield of Quincy, Ill., head of the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, warned that the step could create "serious division" in the church. In the end, Pike postponed the ceremony until he can argue his case before next fall's House of Bishops meeting...
...Paul's Misogynism. Pike believes that "there is no viable theological objection to women in holy orders," and it is an argument that is slowly but surely taking force in Christianity. More than 70 U.S. Protestant churches accept women clerics; within the past decade, women have been ordained ministers in the Lutheran state churches of Denmark and Sweden and in a dozen Reformed and Evangelical churches of France, Germany and Eastern Europe...