Whether it is good for women to be ordained or not, there is great value in a College that keeps to a specific tradition over a long period of time. Mixing men and women as ordination candidates MUST change the ethos and remove something that cannot be restored once gone. READ ON
Mirfield: women
By Pat Ashworth
THE College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, is to admit women candidates for ordination training. Women have been admitted as theology students for many years, and the Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Revd Stephen Platten, who chairs the new governing body, has described the move as “a natural development” in the college’s life.
Mirfield is responding to the Hind report on theological training. The Superior of the Community of the Resurrection, Fr George Guiver CR, said:
“The new governing body has greater freedom for action . . .: after 100 years of service to the Church, we are clear that it should go forward for another 100 years on the best possible footing.
“There is nothing quite like what we offer at Mirfield, and it is being sought after by an extraordinary variety of people in the churches today: a development we need to take seriously and maximise.”
The College Council, in a statement, spoke of its firm belief in “the need to prepare people of all persuasions for the Church as it is. Mirfield provides an excellent setting for its students to discern what it is to be Catholic at this juncture in the [Church’s] history.”
Staff were committed to “fostering a learning and praying community in which those of differing theological convictions are respected and given space to grow together in dialogue and also to disagree”, the statement said.
New Warden: Canon Anne Dyer, aged 46, Ministry Development Officer in Rochester, is to be the new Warden of Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham. Canon Dyer studied chemistry in Oxford, and and trained at Wycliffe Hall and King’s College, London
The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.)
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