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CORRESPONDENCE How to cope Meridian, Miss. To the Editors: As a pastorally concerned priest still on active duty after fifty-three years, I agree wholeheartedly with the carefully worded but...
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...To the Editors: Paul Jaskunas's account ["Migrating Anglo-Catholics," June 4] of the distress many Anglo-Catholics are suffering as a result of the Church of England' s decision to ordain women priests fails to recognize that at least some AngloCatholics are quite comfortable with Anglicanism's growing acceptance of women in the priesthood...
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...Because of our different assumptions, then, we are speaking different languages that neither side understands.Perhaps the first step toward moving together is to address these assumptions, rather than ordination directly...
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...This teaching, however, is not infallible and can possibly be changed, as was the case with the church's teaching on responsible parenthood (see Pope Pius XII's address to the midwives of Italy...
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...2:16 July 1993 CommonwealCORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) ity only in functional terms, then the exclusion of women from priesthood is clearly a statement that women are inferior...
...Part of the difficulty in debating this question, much discussed in your pages, is that opponents do not share the same set of assumptions...
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...3. Similarly, the feminist assumption that androgyny is the ideal and that the increasing equivalence of sexual roles is a sign of progress, as opposed to the belief that there are substantive differences between male and female...
...We fail to see any genuine scriptural reasons for relegating women to a second-class position in the church, and believe that a centuries'-old practice that is wrong is not made right because it is centuries old...
...On the other hand, we have attracted at least an equal number of worshipers who appreciate our traditional ways, but are put off by the misogynist attitudes of some of our coreligionists...
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...In my Anglo-Catholic parish, Saint Ignatius of Antioch in New York City, a woman priest has for several years celebrated Mass, preached, and heard confessions...
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...You may be interested to know that, in the American Episcopal church at least, the majority of our religious communities, of both men and women, support the ordination of women, with some of the orders of sisters providing a fair number of priestly vocations...
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...Anglo-Catholics who support the ordination of women do so on the same grounds as those Roman Catholics who are campaigning on the issue...
...I believe the conflicting assumptions are: 1. The American ideal of se/f-autonomy in contrast with the traditional ideal of membership in a community which aims for a common good...
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...MARY E. HUNT From the Editors: Commonweal readers will feel balanced on this subject if they have read Alexander M. Santora's "Anna Quindlen: From the '60s to the '90s" (Februa~ 14, 1992...
...This kind of attitude makes all magisterial teaching look relative, less binding, easily "brushed away" if not found convenient, as the bishop states so well...
...Some of the opponents of women priests in my church say that, for the sake of ecumenism, Anglicans should not have changed until other branches of the Catholic church were also ready to make the same move...
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...To the Editors: As a pastorally concerned priest still on active duty after fifty-three years, I agree wholeheartedly with the carefully worded but clear article by Bishop Kenneth Untener (June 18) on what Humanae vitae has done to us, and with the bishop's last line: "We've got to do something about that...
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