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...Byrne, 66, Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis and vice president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; of heart failure; in St. Paul. Theologically conservative, Byrne was a social activist who supported Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers' grape and lettuce boycotts. At the 1971 World Synod of Bishops in Rome, Byrne urged that "no argument should be used to exclude women from any service to the church if it stems from male prejudice or blind adherence to merely human tradition...
...ministry, Zaire's Joseph Cardinal Ma-lula asked that the bishops consider new ministries for which married clergy might be suitable. As for women's share in the ministry and their possible ordination as priests, Bishop Paul Verschuren of Helsinki suggested that an entire future synod be devoted to the role of women in the church. The very fact that such proposals could calmly be offered in the Pope's presence suggests how open the synods have become...
...document said to be in the works at the Vatican is expected to broaden the conclave of papal electors to include others besides cardinals: probably patriarchs of the Eastern Rite churches and perhaps representatives of the international Synod of Bishops. What is more, the traditionally "secret" conclave may be somewhat more open, with the voting prelates no longer locked up in the Vatican for the duration of the balloting...
...instead of reeling from the dissidents' vigorous challenge, the Synod's conservatives have recovered remarkably. This week, as registration begins at Concordia, no fewer than 170 full-time students are expected to enroll in the standard master of divinity program, along with 20 other graduate students; that total is well above the most optimistic predictions after the split last winter, even though far below the 650 enrolled before the controversy began. Acting President Ralph A. Bohlmann, who has been Preus' theological aide-de-camp, has fielded a full-time faculty of 18 (compared with four last spring...
...graduates, 77 have already been placed in church work (only 21, however, have thus far been ordained). As for E.L.I.M.,. though it claims heavy clerical backing (1,827 members out of 5,100 North American clergy), financial support comes from only 296 of the Missouri Synod's 6,100 parishes. Still, it is enough: after subsidizing Seminex's first semester last spring, E.L.I.M. ended the fiscal year with a surplus...