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THE WEEK, Page 29SOCIETYA Summit on Women
The Pope holds fast against ordaining female members of the
clergy
The Church of England is consumed with a landmark vote,
scheduled next November, on whether to allow women priests. That
innovation deeply divides the worldwide Anglican Communion, in
which 14 of 34 branches now ordain women to the priesthood. The
same issue clouded the ecumenical scene last week when
Anglicanism's Primate, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey,
visited Rome for his first summit meeting with Pope John Paul.
Carey, who did not repeat his publicized objections to Rome's
hard line on birth control, emerged to describe the encounter
of nearly one hour as "excellent, excellent."
Cordiality aside, women's ordination turned out to be a
big sticking point. The official communique stated that
Archbishop Carey deemed the practice "a possible and proper
development," while John Paul said it "constitutes a grave
obstacle to the whole process of Anglican-Roman Catholic
reconciliation." The Pope's latest warning on women, however,
will do nothing to dissuade yes votes in England or elsewhere.
For one thing, lingering hopes for Anglican-Catholic reunion
were dashed last December by a significant Vatican pronouncement
that ruled out any compromise on the powers of the papacy.