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Once again Gerald Ford found himself obliged to defend his family's candor. This time the reason was the frank admission by his middle son Jack, 23, during an interview with the Portland Oregonian, that he has smoked marijuana. While careful to note that he "disapproved, " President Ford in his press conference last week insisted that he found his son's honesty a "very fine trait. "TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo filed this report...
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...times it goes through its business in sedately fraternal style. But these are not normal times. The ordination of women to the priesthood has developed into the most divisive Episcopal issue since the "high church-low church" wars of a century ago. Last week at their annual meeting in Portland, Me., the bishops voted 118-18 to censure three of their retired or resigned members for ordaining women priests in violation of church canons...
...strongest action the House of Bishops had taken against any of its members since 1966, when it assailed the late Bishop James A. Pike of California for "irresponsible" doctrinal statements. In the Portland discussions, some prelates fumed about the "total lawlessness" of their three colleagues. Retired Bishop William Moody of Lexington, Ky., a traditionalist, remarked that if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat. "We already have parts of the horse," he allowed. "Why not the whole thing?" Before the vote, one of the two rebel prelates present, retired Bishop Edward...
...censure of the trio, however emphatic, has no effect on their rights to preside over church ceremonies. But Bishop Robert Rusack has banned from his Los Angeles diocese a fourth prelate, George Barrett, the resigned bishop of Rochester, whose ordination of more women last month was "decried" at Portland. Meanwhile, many of the 14 women with disputed priestly credentials continue to celebrate Holy Communion in defiance of local bishops...