Word: synods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints of conservative parishioners about D.M.S. partisanship were relatively restrained until last year, when members of the contentious group began disrupting worship services at area churches attended by executives of targeted corporations. As a result, 71 of the 145 members of Roth's church petitioned the Lutheran regional synod to investigate their pastor's conduct. The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that...
...only been for the past four decades that women were permitted to sing in parish choirs. So when the General Synod of the Church of England convened a historic session last week in Church House at Westminster Abbey, supporters of a motion to allow women priests had reason to worry. After all, a similar proposal had failed in 1978. Archbishop of York John Habgood, who favored the change, was calling it "deeply divisive." Another liberal, Bishop Hugh Montefiore, had prepared a half-a-loaf amendment to authorize a 20-year "experiment" with women priests that could thereafter be halted. Then...
...priests can be ordained, and while that step is now likely, it is not a sure thing. Legislation to implement last week's decision must pass a majority of local dioceses and then survive the crucial test: win a second approval again by all three houses of the synod, this time by two-thirds majorities. Last week only 57% of the synod priests voted yes. The change in the state-established church must also pass both houses of Parliament, which "always take a very reactionary line on ecclesiastical things because they don't really understand them," says Monica...
...dying steel-mill town of Clairton, 71 of the 135 members at Trinity Lutheran Church had complained about Pastor D. Douglas Roth's support of DMS to Bishop Kenneth May and the regional synod of the Lutheran Church in America. Eventually the members demanded Roth's dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people...
Divorced Anglicans, like divorced Roman Catholics, are denied a church wedding should they wish to give marriage another go. But with Britain's divorce rate now one in three, the Church of England's General Synod last week decided that the second time around deserved a bit of help. By a vote of 254 to 145, it gave provisional approval for divorced individuals to be married in church after their cases have been reviewed and approved by the local Bishop and parish Priest. The proposal now goes to the church's 44 dioceses for comment before...