"Let your women keep silence in the churches," said St. Paul (I Corinthians 14:34). But Christ put women very near the center of things, and they have played a mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 4.1% of the total number of clergymen.
Last week the General...
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