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...Mexico and on the whole continent. We offer it to you as your own." Mindful of Latin America's desperate shortage of priests, he said later, "O Mother, awaken in the younger generation readiness for the exclusive service of God; implore for us abundant local vocations to the priesthood...
...Church of England doesn't want women priests [Nov. 20] because the men are afraid they'll lose their jobs. Women in England who seek the priesthood should drop the rhetoric and address the issue: job discrimination. The priesthood may be a calling, but it is also a means of earning a living, like any other...
...laity endorsed it too. But the rank-and-file clergy of the Church of England vehemently opposed the idea. So, as English Anglicans held their autumn General Synod in the white-domed Church House behind Westminster Abbey last week, a proposal to ordain women to the priesthood was defeated...
DIED. Anastas Mikoyan, 82, Soviet politician who amazingly survived nearly 50 years of his nation's purges and upheavals and was briefly President of the U.S.S.R. (1964-65); after a long illness. Son of an Armenian carpenter, Mikoyan studied for the priesthood before joining the Bolsheviks in 1915. One of Stalin's most trusted ministers, Mikoyan became known both as a tough, wily trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with...
...active social life, and at least one steady girlfriend. A devout tailor interested him in the writings of St. John of the Cross, Spain's 16th century Carmelite mystic, and in 1942, the year after his father died, Wojtyla decided to begin studies for the priesthood at an illegal underground seminary...