Word: popes
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...grandly symbolic site of England's Canterbury Cathedral, the mother see of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Pope John Paul II in 1982 joined Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie in launching a bold venture. Following 16 years of ecumenical talks, the two church leaders inaugurated a second round of negotiations to examine whether Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism could come to recognize each other's priests and bishops. Such recognition would end 4 1/2 centuries of separation between two major wings of Christianity and pave the way for reunion...
Meeting in Larnaca, Cyprus, last week, the primates who lead the 27 independent branches of world Anglicanism released a letter that the Pope had sent to Archbishop Runcie last Dec. 8. In it, John Paul responded to decisions at the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican and Episcopal bishops. Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris...
Apparently, female bishops are the last straw for John Paul. Referring to the talks begun in 1982, he declared that the Anglican move to women priests and bishops "appears to pre-empt this study and effectively block the path to the mutual recognition of ministries." Though the Pope's opposition to women in the clergy is well known, this was his chilliest statement on the ecumenical implications...
...church is still not entirely reconciled. Many Catholics consider Gregoire a turncoat priest for swearing allegiance to the revolutionary state, which repudiated the power of the Pope. Last June, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, head of the French church, officially endorsed a campaign to sanctify 181 priests and three bishops who were murdered by a Paris mob in the Carmes prison in 1792. "France is like a family that has had an internal dispute," Lustiger said. "If we don't talk about the bad things that happened, we won't have a real reconciliation." Right-wing Catholics will converge on Paris...
...realize that there is yet to be a rock lyricist who writes nearly as well as Pope or Dickinson, but some of these citations are just embarrassing. There are lyrics with more literary merit and more social impact than, "You are the sunshine of my life/That's why I'll always stay around." (Stevie Wonder...