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...taste of such criticisms on his visit to the U.S. in 1979. Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, declared in his presence that the church should ordain women; John Paul remained unmoved. "The joke went around," says Suzanne Hiatt, an Episcopal priest, "that he had been told he should step on the ground and kiss the women, and instead he kissed the ground and stepped on the women...
More than 1,000 American women have publicly declared their ambitions to become priests, and some of them plan to gather later this year to discuss their goal. "The people who feel some kind of call have an obligation to witness to that call," says Kathy Larson, director of religious education at a parish in Roswell, N. Mex. She has wanted to be a priest since childhood. She worked at an Episcopal church but felt thwarted: "I know in my bones that I am a Catholic, and I always will be. I feel that I have an obligation to witness...
...trend that aids such an ambition is the acute shortage of priests. Already thousands of women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such assistants are underpaid and exploited, but the more important criticism is that they are still forbidden to conduct the central rituals of the faith...
...Paul II during his 1983 visit to Poland and that several people with explosives were arrested. A Vatican spokesman said last week that he was not aware of such a plot, as did Warsaw's official spokesman, Jerzy Urban. Platek also claimed that just before Popieluszko's murder, the priest was to be dispatched to Rome. Vatican officials denied the statement...
...forensic expert testified without emotion that the activist priest died from a combination of severe beating, shock, strangulation by the nylon cord with which he had been trussed and from his inability to expel the blood and vomit that flooded through his respiratory system after the attack. Dispassionately, Byrdy held up one of the two rolls of stained gauze that Popieluszko's attackers had forced into their victim's mouth...