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After his ordination in 1953, he spent three years as assistant priest at the Immaculate Conception Church, Glasgow.
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He found the ordinations, three times a year, to be his happiest moments.
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Here is the central issue in the debate over the ordination of women.
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Men as well as women are now realizing that the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood is a gospel issue.
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People tend to become emotional when the subject of the ordination of women is raised.
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The ordination of women would certainly alleviate shortages of staff.
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There were no official mediators, licensed by an ecclesiastical hierarchy or set apart by apostolic ordination .
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Though Presbyterians tutored him, he chose the Episcopal way and in 1762 went to London for ordination .