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...missionary priest to Asia, currently in Rome, criticized the reasoning that priests must be men because Christ chose only male apostles. If so, he said, "the priesthood should be open only to fishermen and Jews." The shortage of missionary priests, according to American Moral Theologian Francis X. Murphy, is one element that may eventually change Vatican thinking. Says he: "Women will be ordained when there is necessity for it, as there is in the Third World. You can't have the church without the Eucharist...
...Catholic prison chaplain, intoned the last rites. Fortified by a bit of contraband whisky smuggled into the prison, Gilmore remained calm as the state medical examiner pinned a target over his heart. Nor did he flinch when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...
...Episcopal Church, which has just begun ordaining women as priests, added a new twist to that innovation last week. New York City's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained the Rev. Ellen Barrett, 30, the denomination's first openly committed homosexual priest of either sex. In an unusual last-minute plea to prevent the action, Colorado's Bishop William Frey had wired Colleague Moore: "Ordination of practicing homosexuals does not represent the mind of the church and is plainly contrary to the teachings of Scripture which we have all sworn to uphold...
During Barrett's ordination service, another priest, James Wattley, spoke out against it as a "travesty and a scandal." Moore answered that "many persons with homosexual tendencies are presently in the ordained ministry," and that Barrett was "highly qualified intellectually, morally and spiritually to be a priest...
...STILL SHARE A TENT WITH SHARON; GREEN-EYED SEX FIEND IS HUNTED; APACHE STRIP PUTS PARSON ON WARPATH?a story about a male entertainer named Apache who stripped off his clothes while performing at a women's bingo party to raise money to buy a water bed for a priest...