Tag: Women’s Ordination
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An infallible teaching on women’s ordination?
“To declare the matter infallibly settled would in effect make communion with the Catholic church hinge on this issue… Is Benedict trying to avoid that by merely waving ‘infalliblity’ over the question, rather than making an infallible declaration himself?” – Bryan Cones at U.S. Catholic
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Pope Benedict faces unrest in his native land
73% of the general population in Germany say the Catholic Church should implement reforms such as optional celibacy and women’s ordination
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Swiss Catholic Bishop speaks out for women’s ordination
The bishop of the diocese of St. Gallen [St. Gall] spoke out openly for women’s ordination to the priesthood. “We must search for steps that lead there,” he said. “I could imagine that women’s diaconate could be such a step.”
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Priest pushes for women deacons
Fr. Bill Tkachuk at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Evanston, Illinois, is pushing for discussion on the ordination of women to the diaconate – a question which is still open at the level of official teaching.
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Female priest for Old Catholics in Italy
As a child, she prayed to St. Rita — much venerated in Sicily — asking for her intervention to become a priest.
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Bishops with opinions
How many ministers in the Catholic Church, bishops or priests or deacons or lay ministers, feel they must say things they don’t believe, or not say things they do believe, out of obedience?
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Bishop of Osnabruck on Women in the Catholic Church
The Catholic bishop of Osnabruck, Germany, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, thinks that more power for women might possibly have prevented some of the abuse in the Catholic Church.