Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January, 43 women will have been ordained priests in the Episcopal Church, as authorized by the church's General Convention last September. As for the famed "Philadelphia Eleven " and the four other women who underwent disputed ordinations before the convention, so far eight have arranged for "services of recognition " as priests. In Indianapolis TIME Correspondent Anne Constable covered the ordination of Jacqueline Means, 40, the first officially recognized Episcopal woman priest. Constable 's report...
...make history. At 3:20 p.m. he laid his hands on the frizzy blonde head of the white-robed woman kneeling before him and intoned: "Therefore, Father, through Jesus Christ your Son, give your Holy Spirit to Jacqueline; fill her with grace and power and make her a priest in your church." Some of the 45 priests who joined in the service clothed her in a white chasuble, the outer vestment of her new office...
After the ordination, Means' friends gathered in celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
...tallow-fat, bone-stock, horses and humanity." Because secular art has never been officially sanctioned, Western masters from Blake to De Kooning have left a massive catalogue of inspired religious works. Yet Amis inserts frequent reminders that the price of such beauty and serenity is totalitarianism. A rebellious priest who tries to keep Hubert from the surgeon's knife is brutally murdered...
James locks Sally in her room. Then, when he unlocks the door, she refuses to come out. The battle of frosty New England worlds is on. Despite the pleas of her niece, old friends and even a Mexican priest who happens around, Sally settles down for a long standoff, comforted by two resources: apples in the attic and a torn old paperback...