Religion: Father, Make Her a Priest'

By the end of January, 43 women will have been ordained priests in the Episcopal Church, as authorized by the church's General Convention last September. As for the famed "Philadelphia Eleven " and the four other women who underwent disputed ordinations before the convention, so far eight have arranged for "services of recognition " as priests. In Indianapolis TIME Correspondent Anne Constable covered the ordination of Jacqueline Means, 40, the first officially recognized Episcopal woman priest. Constable 's report:

Gazing at the overflow congregation in All Saints' Church, Bishop Donald Davis recited the...

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