{"id":10197,"date":"2011-06-25T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2011-06-28T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:21:28","slug":"cardinal-policarpo-no-theological-reasons-against-womens-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/cardinal-policarpo-no-theological-reasons-against-womens-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Policarpo: No theological reasons against women’s ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, you read that right. The patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo, says that there will be women priests when God wills it, but for now it is better not to raise the question. The Catholic Church’s ban on women priests is a tradition dating back to Jesus and the apostles, but theologically there is no \u00a0obstacle to women’s ordination. Read the article<\/a> at “Vatican Insider,” Andrea Tornelli’s well-informed (but clumsily translated) blog of La Stampa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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