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...conclusions of the survey will offer cold comfort to the U.S. hierarchy, which, as it happens, commissioned the research. The bishops will discuss the findings at their semiannual meeting in Detroit next week as part of their preparation for the churchwide synod in Rome next fall. They will undoubtedly be disturbed by the survey's findings about celibacy and contraception, and they may also wince at the disclosure that the priests' liberal position on divorce is "remarkably different from the traditional one." Though the bishops may breathe a bit easier to learn that priests, by and large, support...
...phrase "approval of his province" means that bishops should have the consent of the national church. In the case of England, the historic seat of Anglicanism, the approval would have to come not only from the General Synod of the Church of England but also from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. And Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury voted against the resolution in Nairobi. "I have no everlasting objection to the ordination of women," said Ramsey last week in London. He believes "it will come," but he adds that "we must not move too rapidly." Like many other Anglican churchmen...
...much sermons as news. Though he has pet causes-liberal abortion laws, integration, Israel and theological freedom-his real enthusiasm is saved for his pet peeves, among them capital punishment, conservative theology and Black Power. His campaigns have led him into regular fulminations against the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention and, most important, his own church. Episcopal funding of militant (and separatist) black groups has led Kinsolving, who once warned of a rightist takeover of his church, into unlikely alliances with conservatives in attacks on Episcopal leadership...
Kinsolving's columns still produce enemies aplenty among churchmen. In one column about a conservative purge in the Missouri Synod, he wrote that "the headquarters of the Missouri Synod looks like a Parisian guillotine basket, circa 1793." Dissident clergymen, Kinsolving gleefully reported, were calling the denomination's president, the Rev. Dr. J.A.O. Preus, "Chairman Jao." Preus replied by likening Kinsolving's technique to that of Joseph Goebbels...
Encounter. The German survey was far more extensive. Twenty-one million questionnaires were issued to German Catholics (21% replied), to gather information for a January synod called by the German bishops. The Germans showed a remarkable spiritual interest in the Mass; 60.9% attend church regularly every Sunday, another 15.5% "nearly" every Sunday. Asked what helps their faith as Christians, 60.1% of the respondents named "holy services" as the most important (a desperate 6% named "nothing at all"). The importance of the Mass, declared 54.9%, is as an "encounter with God." For nearly as many, it is "a chance to draw...