Word: lambeth
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...need to justify marriage to early Christians in the face of attacks by otherworldly heretics. But contraception did not become a serious issue until the 20th century, when improved techniques-and laxer morals-led to widespread use of birth control devices. By 1930 the Anglican Church hierarchy at the Lambeth Conference reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children. Those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose sin against nature...
...vote came as a mild surprise. At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women...
...many Lambeth conferees, the question was less whether women ought to be made priests than how to preserve unity within the church and ecumenism without. Some diehards held that female Apostles were absent from Scripture and that since priests who administer the Sacrament represent Christ, they should be, like him, male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches...
...ordination of women has gone more smoothly in Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong than in the U.S. Even the Church of England has announced "no fundamental objections," and the Lambeth decision may help pro-women's ordination forces carry the day at the Church of England Synod this November. As for black African Anglicans, some associate women's equality with racial equality. Others, however, share the position taken by a Kenyan bishop: Women priests are fine for the West...
...spirit of harmony at the Lambeth Conference-the eleventh since 1867 -may have been helped by the decision to have the bishops live together in a conclave at the University of Kent as temporary celibates, rather than scatter to London hotels with their wives after the working day. Ironically, while the bishops were contemplating female equality, their wives were cooped up in a sort of enforced purdah in another college three miles away, not able even to telephone except in case of emergency...