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...candidate's chartered plane fires back across the continent against the direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...
...numbers crunch among priests is not quite so severe. Resignations have slowed considerably since the period of 1966-74, when one out of seven -- 10,000 in all -- left the priesthood. Nonetheless, 44% of U.S. priests are 56 or older, compared with 26% in 1970, and they are not being replaced. Says Father Joseph Meehan of Philadelphia: "It's been an extremely long time since I talked to someone who was seriously considering the priesthood." Enrollment in postcollege seminaries has dropped from 8,887 in 1965 to the current 4,039. By the year 2000, one study predicts, there will...
...further fuel a controversy that has raged in the church since the campaign for women priests began gathering strength twelve years ago. Seven of the 28 provinces that form the 70 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, including churches in the U.S. and Canada, have opened the ranks of the priesthood to women, but the parent church has so far been reluctant to take that step...
...personally support the ordination of womeninto the priesthood," the Archbishop said lastnight. "But I don't think that by breaking therules, she [Bennett] will serve the purpose shehopes...
...Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change would clear an important reunification hurdle. But as part of the arrangement, Willebrands asked for a formal Anglican statement of agreement with Rome on all essential doctrines regarding the nature of the Eucharist and the role of the priesthood in celebrating...