Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engaged in a perpetual sibling rivalry. The "Catholic substance" is good in that it preserves the tradition of Christianity and its sacramental message. But in Catholicism the authority of the church interferes with individual responsibility to God, and the prophetic power is perverted in the hands of an established priesthood. It is the "Protestant spirit" which must bring back the direct connection between God and the individual...
...Jack O'Leary hiccuped no more than any of his schoolmates. After high school he worked in a Los Angeles grocery so that he could save money to study for the priesthood. He had saved almost enough when, in 1948, he had a ruptured appendix. As soon as he began to recover from the peritonitis, Jack began to hiccup. The doctor said this was normal after such a severe abdominal upset, and it would soon stop. It never...
Social Grace & Gimmicks. "Protestantism has no working doctrine of the visible church...The minister, no longer sustained by a priesthood of believers, looks outside his faith for sources of authority. Social grace and charm, ability to present a popular, interesting sermon filled with gimmicks that produce an immediate response become his basis of leadership. The 'good guy'...emerges in the ministry...
...WILLIAM C. KERNAN [TIME, MAY 26], WHO SEEK AN ULTIMATE AUTHORITARIANISM WHICH THEY CAN EXERCISE IN THE CHURCH, WILL ALWAYS FIND THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH UNCONGENIAL TO THEIR MINISTRIES. HE HAS CONFUSED AUTHORITY WITH REGIMENTATION, AND RELIGIOUS CERTAINTY WITH ECCLESIASTICAL COERCION. NOTHING WOULD SIMPLIFY THE TASK OF THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS MUCH AS A GRANT OF THE KIND OF AUTHORITARIANISM MR. KERNAN SEEMS TO SEEK. FEW THINGS WOULD SO EFFECTIVELY OBSCURE AND CORRUPT THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH AS THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS IT . . . THE THING THAT MAKES THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH A FAITHFUL WITNESS...
Father Kernan summed up his personal dilemma: "Authority means law which is enforceable. There is an absolute lack of authority in the Episcopal Church-at least so far as the priesthood is concerned. Our Lord did not found the church on the laity. He founded it on the priesthood. Yet the rector of an Episcopal church has to do what the people want...