(1) Jeff Rawle, star of Drop The Dead Donkey and I Saw You, plays the pernickety Father Peregrine, and Jesse Spencer is the handsome young ordinand Raphael.

(2) And most of the ordinands are facing the altar, either standing, or crouching down with their forehead touching the ground in a full bow.

(3) He pointed out that women would soon outnumber men as ordinands .

(4) As it happens, in 1978 only 15 percent of ordinands were female; by 1984 that had doubled to over 30 percent.

(5) Some evangelical ordinands are questioning whether they can in good conscience go forward to ordination in the current crisis.