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THE WEEK, Page 22SOCIETYThe Pulpit Barrier
The Church of England admits women priests, but Anglicans will
remain split
For their part, the Bishops and Priests gave strong approval.
But among lay delegates at the Church of England's synod in
London, the historic ballot that approved women as priests
reached the required two-thirds by a margin of just two votes.
That close decision broke 19 centuries of tradition, and it
brings pressure to bear on men-only branches in the worldwide
Anglican Communion (70 million members) to imitate the English
mother church, U.S. Episcopalians and others. (Australia's
Anglicans are expected to authorize women this week.) In England
one-fourth of the bishops and priests remain strongly opposed,
and some kind of split could develop when ordinations of women
begin in 1994. A Vatican spokesman warned that the Anglican move
"constitutes a new and grave obstacle" in the effort to reunite
Anglicanism and Catholicism. Nevertheless, Archbishop of
Canterbury George Carey beseeched the synod to "take the risk
of faith," and it did.