Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In contrast to the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood, the ordination of women to the diaconate is being actively discussed by Catholic scholars, [54] and theologians, as well as senior clergy. The historical evidence points to women serving in ordained roles from its earliest days in both the Western Church as well as the Eastern ...
Women constitute the great majority of members of the consecrated life within the church. Catholic women have played diverse roles, with religious institutes providing a formal space for their participation and convents providing spaces for their self-government, prayer and influence through many centuries. [181]
In Christianity, the ordination of women has been taking place in an increasing number of Protestant and Old Catholic churches, starting in the 20th century. Since ancient times, certain churches of the Orthodox tradition, such as the Coptic Orthodox Church, have raised women to the office of deaconess. [1]
"Father Anne", born Anne Tropeano, is a Catholic who was ordained as a Catholic Priest through the Womanpriest Movement.Upon her ordination, Father Anne accepted excommunication from the institutional Roman Catholic Church, as a sign of her respect for the Church, and a peaceful protest of the historical injustice of men's only ordination in her church.
The decree is in response to Romulo Antonio Braschi ordaining seven Catholic women to the priesthood of his movement, the Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of Jesus the King, on June 29, 2002, [1] and is a follow-up to a decree of excommunication of Braschi and the women issued on August 5, 2002. [2] [1]
A lifelong Catholic from Santa Fe who now lives in Albuquerque, Benavidez said he views female ordination as part of "a more hopeful, generative vision for the church."
A recent Pew Research Poll of US Catholics showed 64% of respondents support ordaining women as priests. Judy Russell: Catholics pray for vocations while women still await ordination Skip to main ...
Ordinatio sacerdotalis (English: Priestly ordination) is an apostolic letter issued by Pope John Paul II on 22 May 1994. In this document, John Paul II discussed the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone" and wrote that "the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women".