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Most journalists blamed the split on the decision of the Church's 1976 General Convention to allow the ordination of women to the priest- hood. Seabury, a Berkeley political scientist and a descendant of America's first Episcopalian bishop, thinks the factional schism repre- sents a more fundamental rift between Episcopal clergy and laity. Both bishops and ministers, he says, led the Church toward increasing sec- ularization as they joined political and social c...