Category: Ordained Ministry
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Without Deacons, Priests Cannot Exercise Their Office in the Celebration of the Eucharist: A Voice from the 7th Century
A priest that “can do everything himself” is unthinkable for St. Isidore.
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Pope Francis Puts Married Priests on the Agenda of the Amazon Synod
“Pope Francis has requested a debate over allowing married men in the Amazon region of Brazil to become priests.”
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Documentation: Orthodox Liturgists Support Ordination of Women Deacons
“The reinstitution of the female diaconate does not constitute an innovation, as some would have us believe…”
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Everything is Relative – Except for the Ordination
It is hard to imagine what the Catholic Church would look like without any absolute ordination. Many developments over the last centuries are based on that idea.
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The Amazon Synod: Will Married Clergy Be Treated?
The main purpose will be “new paths for the evangelization of God’s people in that region.”
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Reading DW #4: Where Are We on Ministry?
Ministry remains a difficult question between Catholics and Lutherans. DW helps to map the differences and see which are church-dividing and which are not.
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Vatican Clergy Prefect on “Traditionalist” Seminarians
At the website of the Congregation for the Clergy, there is a report on the plenary session of the Congregation held this past summer. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation, says the following (see p. 3) about “traditionalist” seminarians: As an addition to the various aspects of formation already treated concerning the Ratio, I…
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East Timor: More Applicants Than Seminary Can Hold
To cope with the problem, a second minor seminary has been opened.
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Newly Named Bishop of Innsbruck Advocates for Women Deacons
Ordination of women to the priesthood is “not so utopian.”