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...have since been charged with violating Episcopal canon law and will probably face church trials. What disciplinary action awaits the women is uncertain. Though a majority of bishops favor ordaining women, the church cannot approve it until the 1976 general convention at the earliest. Piccard's bishop, the Rt. Rev. Philip Mc-Nairy, who wants women to be priests, notes that "Jeannette Piccard is a woman of causes. She loves a fight. She feels strongly called to the priesthood. I understand that those who are 79 years old have to be in a hurry. But there are many...
...Rt such moments, the Mary Richards of the show and the Mary Tyler Moore of real life seem indistinguishable. Both are relentlessly optimistic and almost without...
...against Britain and argued that "the same applies to the black people in their struggle today." The resolution has been condemned in the South African Parliament and by the Dutch Reformed churches, which do not belong to the council. But the new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Rt. Rev. Bill B. Burnett, last week defended it. Said he: "It faces us with things as they...
Above the Law. The bishops chose not to attack the women directly but rather the errant colleagues who had ordained them: three retired or resigned U.S. bishops (the Rt. Revs. Robert L. De Witt, Daniel Corrigan and Edward R. Welles II) and the current bishop of Costa Rica, the Rt. Rev. J. Antonio Ramos, who participated in the ceremony only peripherally. One of the leaders of the attack was Bishop Harold B. Robinson of Western New York, who complained that the ordaining bishops' action was "a parallel to Nixon. These men have placed themselves above the law." Along with...
...admitted that the ordinations were "irregular," even while contending they were "valid and right." None of the eleven had the required approval of her bishop and diocesan standing committee of clergy and laity. Moreover, the quartet of bishops who ordained them lacked authority on other grounds as well. The Rt. Rev. Robert L. De Witt, 58, the resigned Bishop of Pennsylvania; the Rt. Rev. Edward Randolph Welles II, 67, the retired Bishop of West Missouri; and the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop who had headed domestic missions, all apparently ignored a canon that forbids retired bishops...