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Women still cannot legally become priests in the U.S. Episcopal Church.* Like other churches that do not ordain women-Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Missouri Synod Lutheran-the Episcopal Church has refused to do so basically because Jesus and all of his apostles were men. Most other U.S. Protestant bodies reject...
If West German law locksteps to its literal conclusion, a Nazi-hunter will go to jail while the convicted war criminal she tried to kidnap and spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in...
Hitchcock candidly concedes that the conservatives' fight is uphill. "The liberal catechetical establishment is so entrenched that it will take ten years for any theological recovery to take hold," he says. As for liturgy, "In some dioceses you can do almost anything you want to." Yet Hitchcock, at least...
For several years now Americans have been hearing a somber new slogan: "Death with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support...
One vital problem that Union will have to solve is whether and how to restore the discipline of traditional studies. Students in the '60s were more interested in activist applications of theology, but now, Paul Lehmann observes, "they are beginning to insist on serious attention to tradition as a...