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Article: Women, Canterbury, and Rome: the Church of England has been right to accept women priests. (Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 12, 1994
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THE Church of England ordains its first women priests on March 12th. To most of its members, clerical and lay alike, this seems both right for the church and overdue in a society which, at last, recognises the equality of women and accepts them in other once all-male roles. Yet the change has riven the English church as never since the 16th century.
The dissident minority has had the best press, and some of it has been one-sided whining. Much has been heard of the awful hurt to some male priests' consciences if, elsewhere in the church, a few women pursue the vocation which they, with just as good conscience, believe by God's grace to be theirs. Little has been heard ...