Category: Ordained Ministry
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The Future of Women Deacons – updated
This promises to be a significant discussion.
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Church, Ordination, and Power
Some thoughts about how the Catholic Church should deal with structures of power.
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Report on female deacons has been given to the Pope
The short report sought to clarify the historical record.
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Ordering the Body: 1. Unity in Difference
The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).
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Austrian Bishop: People Call for Married Priests and Female Deacons
If the Eucharist is to be the font, center, and summit of the Church’s life, something has to change.
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Priestly Formation in Korea, Re-envisioned
Perhaps if these principles are experienced in and among church leaders, they will better understand its value and promote this experience for the whole Catholic people.
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Constantinople: Priests Can Remarry in Certain Circumstances
According to the website Orthodoxie, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople will be releasing an official text by Patriarch Bartholomew saying that widowed priests and those who have been abandoned by their wives will be allowed to re-marry, with careful consideration on a case-by-case basis. Priests who leave their wives to contract a second marriage will not…
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Ordination to Sacramental Priesthood: Traditional, Communal, Familial
The community exuded a practical, liturgical and communal, ecclesiology of their corporate baptismal identity as “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9) through not only their robust engagement in the Divine Liturgy but also their affective, and thus effective, hospitality to us.
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Code Language in the Amazonia Preparatory Document?
“We need to practice the art of listening, which is more than simply hearing.”