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...fact, forbidden him to baptize the child "under holy obedience" -the form of order usually used in grave matters. Moreover, he said, the dismissal procedures amounted to "almost a trial by Telex," and he intends to appeal the decision to the Vatican. Meantime, he remains a priest-if not a Jesuit-in good standing, though he must now find a bishop who will authorize him to exercise his priestly functions publicly...
...Then the phone rang: a call from Father John J. Roussin, assistant pastor of the church. Was she the same Carol Morreale who had been quoted in a Marlboro newspaper as supporting the establishment of an abortion-information clinic in the city? She was. In that case, warned the priest, "there might be some problems...
Church officials first quietly offered the Morreales a compromise: the baptism would be allowed if Mrs. Morreale would privately drop her support for Baird. She refused, because "it felt somehow like a bribe." Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, told a TV newsman that no priest in the archdiocese would baptize the child unless Mrs. Morreale backed down. Baird countered with a dramatic nationwide call for a volunteer to perform the baptism...
Locked Doors. Last week the Morreales got their volunteer, another controversial outsider: New York Jesuit Priest Joseph F. O'Rourke, 36, an antiwar activist who is now affiliated with Catholics for a Free Choice, a group that disputes the church's teachings on abortion. On the steps of Immaculate Conception Church, whose doors were firmly locked, O'Rourke baptized Nathaniel Ryan Morreale with the ancient formula, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Bill Baird, a former Sunday school teacher who now professes "no formal religion," was invited...
...women, meantime, do not feel that anything can change what has been done. "As usual, the church couched a lot of brutality in godly language," said the Rev. Carter Heyward, one of the eleven women ordained. "I am a priest. They cannot take that away from...