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When the future Archbishop of Canterbury wanted to find out a thing or two about sex, he didn't wait around. "I began learning about sex before I was ten," the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey told Interviewer Jimmy Saville on Britain's Speak Easy radio show. "I wanted to know where babies came from. I'm in favor of sex education for children. But it must be the very best kind...
...wrath by concluding that there were no Scriptural or dogmatic grounds for forbidding either a married priesthood or the ordination of women. It described the "charism" of celibacy and the "charism" of the ministry as two separate spiritual gifts not always granted to the same person. In reply, Hartford Archbishop John Whealon recommended at a press conference that bishops "abort the present approach" in favor of "scholarly, disciplined theological research...
...which will discuss problems of the priesthood. The only progressive in the delegation is Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, a natural choice since he heads the U.S. conference. The others are clearly conservatives: Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, St. Louis' John Cardinal Carberry and Co-Adjutor Archbishop Leo C. Byrne of St. Paul and Minneapolis, one of the principal critics of the Armbruster report and a major figure in the 1969 resignation of his liberal auxiliary. Bishop James P. Shannon (TIME, Feb. 23, 1970). The alternates-San Francisco's Archbishop James T. McGucken and Hartford...
...secret slowly rippled out to a widening circle of friends and confidants; eventually many in the parish knew but, amazingly, kept quiet. Only in recent months, apparently, did San Francisco's Archbishop Joseph McGucken get wind of the rumors. He asked Duryea to resign and "disappear quietly." Duryea refused. Last week the Archbishop announced that Duryea had been automatically excommunicated because of his marriage and has been relieved of all his priestly functions...
...against abortion have come from church spokesmen. After New York State passed one of the most liberalized abortion laws in the country last year, the Roman Catholic bishops of the state warned Catholics in the medical profession that participation in an abortion would earn them automatic excommunication. In Boston, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros caused an ecumenical fuss by calling abortion "the new barbarism." Yet the conservative Protestant journal Christianity Today went further, describing abortion-on-demand as "mass homicide." Such language, argues Lawyer John Noonan, an articulate foe of abortion (see box), obscures the issues. "Abortion is not murder...