Word: priesthoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Catholic Reporter, however, is convinced that the movement will not soon disappear, largely because so many clerics have become involved. "There have been innumerable unofficial movements within the church before," he says, "but they came and went rapidly because they lacked the unifying factor of a priesthood and a liturgy of their own." He suggests that the underground cell might well become an attractive middle road between unacceptable institutionalized traditionalism and abandonment of the faith...
...suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first demurred. For a man who has "always been able to keep a part of myself out of politics," he says, there was little al lure to a job that he likened to "a commitment to enter the priesthood...
Headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey and Dr. Charles Taylor, former executive director of the American Association of Theological Schools, the committee found a striking lack of quality in Episcopal candidates for the priesthood. Roughly 43% of the 1,042 students at the church's eleven accredited seminaries had college averages of C+ or lower; more than half had come to theology after having tried some other way of life. The quality of the seminaries them selves was also inadequate. The report found that students are overloaded with a bewildering patchwork of courses, and develop little sense of community...
...service commenced when Scott and Ronna, garbed in white head coverings, slippers and robes-symbolic of the priesthood which the wife shares with the husband, though she cannot perform priestly rites-entered the small Sealing Room. There was neither music nor flowers. Governor Romney and Scott's uncle acted as witnesses, their duty being to ensure that no mistakes be made in the ritual. Officiating was Mormon Elder Hugh B. Brown, one of the church's Twelve Apostles, who began with a warm ten-minute homily to the couple. "Hang the marriage license on the wall," he advised...
...house organ." Indeed, the News is sometimes at odds with conventional Mormon opinion. The paper got a lot of criticism when it ran a story about Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's criticism of the church position that Negroes are the descendants of Cain and hence ineligible for the priesthood. Himself a Mormon, Udall argued that Founder Joseph Smith held no such view. According to Udall, it was promulgated at a later date when the church "settled for a compromise with its own ideals...