Word: wittig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Episcopal Church has yet to recognize women as priests. But 251 women are attending seminaries, some with hopes of becoming priests, others with plans to teach in seminaries. Over the past 18 months, 15 women have been ordained as priests by four bishops. One of the women, Nancy Wittig, 30, served for four months as a deacon at St. Peter's Church in Morristown, N.J., but resigned because of lack of support from the vestry. In some perplexity, Wittig demands, "How come, if the church proclaims we are all God's children, I am considered less?" Among the others ordained...
...piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...