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NEWS/ VIEWS Mmrrled P r i e s t s Some different pressure towards a married clergy in the Western Catholic Church has come with the ordination in Montreal of Father Romanus Russo, a...
...To wit: "The Archbishop and his priests will remain suspended, forbidden to perform any priestly or episcopal functions, as long as their violation of Canon Law regarding seminaries and ordinations continues, and the Archbishop refuses to account to the Vatican for his Swiss and American bank accounts and other material possessions of the Society of St...
...Passed away are Together, Christian Advocate and their successor, United Methodists Today...
...Tke ~meig Fiwkt The recent appearance in Rome of dissident French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre boggled the minds of Vaticanologists and stirred speculation that formal excommunication was now just around the piazza...
...They may as well have been asking people to turn in their bank books...
...Mass., to whose priesthood Russo was ordained, indirectly challenges this ban in defending the Russo ordination: "The Second Vatican Council states in its decree on the Eastern Church, *all Eastern Rite members should know and be convinced that they can and should preserve their liturgical rites and their established way of life...
...By ordaining a married man he has only interpreted this tradition proper to the Eastern Churches which dates from Apostolic times...
...The Melkite Rite Eparchy (diocese) of Newton...
...The decision was based on the failure of a campaign to raise circulation substantially above the 6,000 level...
...JOHN DEEDY 22 .Xuly 1977:450...
...Only...
...Pins V. "'Lefebvrists will, however, not be formally excommunicated as schismatics, but, instead, be treated as 'not in full communion with the Church,' in return for the Archbishop's promise never to consecrate another 'traditionalist' bishop...
...The U.S...
...T / ~ PrOtestm~ P r e s s Going, going, gone by the end of the year will be engage~social action, the merged journal of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society...
...Which one...
...Westminster has been holding the line in the old Commonwealth against the ordination of women to the Anglican priesthood...
...The phasing out of e/sa is the latest in a series of demises of United Methodist publications...
...The ordination of Father Romanus Russo, a married man and the father of two children, by Patriarch Maximos V Hakim is of this order...
...The Soviet Union can knock out every equivalent American city only 20 times...
...land...
...Odds l a d Ettds When tl~e National Coalition to Ban Handguns, with the help of more than 1200 church congregations, sponsored a three-day campaign for the voluntary surrender of handguns, 72 weapons were turned in: 65 in Chicago, five in Atlanta, two in San Francisco, none in New York...
...Russo's ordination followed that in the Middle East of two married Melkites to serve in the U.S.: Fathers Philip Khairallah of Cleveland and Robert Kirby of Notre Dame...
...But the solid front will be broken in 1979, when one Anglican church goes the way of its American cousin...
...Eastern Rites, such as the Melkite, have a tradition of married clergy...
...Hold your biretta, it's Ireland...
...What's the latest standing in the Nuclear Overkill League...
...Believe Father Gommar DePauw, the Trent-oriented dissident now located on Long Island, and there will be no excommunication of Lefebvre...
...And if the Pope didn't react to that, certainly he would to the unauthorized ordination of 14 priests and 16 subdeacons at Lefebvre's seminary in Econe, Switzer...
...Vatican I1 sanctioned by conciliar declaration the equality of rites and disciplines in the two Churches of East and West...
...If the reports prove true, that action of itself could formalize a schism, for it could mean that Lefebvre's dissent is not likely to die with him...
...But, he added, the demise of e/sa "also reflects the lack of a sizeable constituency of United Methodists deeply concerned about involvement in the critical issues involving our world and its peoples...
...In an editorial in the July issue, e/sa associate editor Lee Ranck allowed "our share of editorial deficiencies and lack of creativity...
...This is rather well put, but whether it will put an end to Vatican selectivity, by which it invokes old rules or Council, depending upon which is the more convenient, is another question...
...That's correct...
...NEWS/ VIEWS Mmrrled P r i e s t s Some different pressure towards a married clergy in the Western Catholic Church has come with the ordination in Montreal of Father Romanus Russo, a former Latin Rite Catholic and Jesuit scholastic, to the Melkite priesthood...
...Archbishop George O. Simms of Armagh, Primate of the Church of Ireland, said 1979 allowed sufficient time for the theological and pastoral training of women candidates...
...Russo, married and the father of two sons, was ordained by Patriarch Maximos V Hakim, leader of the world's one million Meikites...
...Vatican II recognizes in the Patriarch the guardian of tradition and discipline and the 'Head of the Rite' everywhere...
...On the books, however, is a Vatican 100year-old ban against the practice or application of that tradition by the ordination of married men outside the original patriarchal territories...
...The Church of England, meanwhile, announced that it would test opinion on the issue at the Church's General Synod in November, 1978...
...According to him and his "usually reliable sources in Rome," a secret agreement has been struck...
...Another...
...Rome, the while, stands pat...
...For certainly the lion would refuse to be bearded in his own den...
...Lots of reports traveling about that Lefebvre has elevated at least one of his priests to the episcopacy, possibly as a successor to himself...
...No small wonder that Rome should hang back on excommunication and seek an accommodation...
...Rome, acting to head off what it regards as a threat to the celibate tradition in the Western Church, has branded the Russo ordination illicit (though valid) and called Maximos V to Rome to explain...
...If they have improperly fallen away from them because of circumstance of time or personage, let them take pains to return to their ancestral ways...
...Or would he...
...is still way out front, with sufficient strategic weapons to knock out every Soviet city with a population of over 100,000 about 50 times over...
...Ranck termed e/sa's circulation of 6,000 "ridiculously low" in a denomination of almost 10 million members with some 3,000 churches, *'each of which (theoretically) has a person or persons working in social concerns...
Vol. 104 • July 1977 • No. 15
