Everyman
The Fully Ordained Meat Pie
1988 • E15 May 29, 1988
"It would be analogous to consecrating a meat pie on the altar of God to ordain a woman."
These uncompromising words come from Fr Ian Herring, an ordinary Australian vicar. For nearly 2,000 years men have assumed that the role of women in the Church is to support them, not to be their equals.
But now all that is changing. In the Anglican Church in the United States women have already been ordained as priests. In England they are practising as deacons, and the question of their full ordination is under active consideration. In Australia in October 1987 the Synod of the Anglican Church took a crucial vote on the subject.
This film follows the women who were in the front line of the battle through the last tense stages of their campaign.
These uncompromising words come from Fr Ian Herring, an ordinary Australian vicar. For nearly 2,000 years men have assumed that the role of women in the Church is to support them, not to be their equals.
But now all that is changing. In the Anglican Church in the United States women have already been ordained as priests. In England they are practising as deacons, and the question of their full ordination is under active consideration. In Australia in October 1987 the Synod of the Anglican Church took a crucial vote on the subject.
This film follows the women who were in the front line of the battle through the last tense stages of their campaign.