Tag: Women’s Ordination
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Brief Book Review: Claiming the Call to Preach
Anne Koester reviews Donna Giver-Johnson, Claiming the Call to Preach.
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The Liturgical Office of Evangelist – a Proposal Inspired by the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Calls for the admission of women to ordained offices in the Catholic Church are becoming louder than ever. I would like to make a proposal, which falls short of those calls, but makes use of the holistic power of liturgical symbolism.
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German Catholic Women: A Week of Boycott
German Catholic women begin week of boycott
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Switzerland: An Appeal for “Female Sacramentality”
A female monastic community could ask the bishop to ordain one of the sisters for the office of Anointing of the Sick.
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Bishop Kräutler: Pope Francis Asks for Suggestions to Change Mandatory Celibacy
“Previously this process was not allowed. Benedict XVI said that we should pray for priestly vocations. With this pope, it is different. He wants to put a process into motion. This is the new thing. There are doors opening.”
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Cardinal Marx of Munich for “Intensive Further Thinking” about Women’s Ordination
“Then we must keep thinking intensively about such things,” the Cardinal said. “Perhaps it is not yet the end of the path that we continue on with each other.”
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It was a matter of time: Cardinal now says women’s ordination not possible after all
Remember Cardinal Policarpo, the one who said just a bit ago that there is no theological obstacle to women’s ordination?
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Cardinal Policarpo: No theological reasons against women’s ordination
The patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal says there will be women priests when God wills it.
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Is the ban on women’s ordination infallibly taught?
No, argues the National Catholic Reporter.