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Johannes Nicolaas Maria Wijngaards (30 September 1935 – 2 January 2025) was a Dutch Catholic scripture scholar and a laicized priest.. From 1977 he was prominent in his public opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood.
Inter Insigniores is a document issued on 15 October 1976 by the Catholic Church's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the approval of Pope Paul VI.It presents theological and historical arguments against the Catholic Church's ordination of women as priests and bishops.
Citing an earlier Vatican document, Inter insigniores, "on the question of the Admission of women to the Ministerial Priesthood", issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in October 1976, Pope John Paul explains the official Roman Catholic understanding that the priesthood is a special role specially set out by Jesus when he chose twelve men out of his group of male and female ...
As of 2013, a minority in the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests support ordaining women to the priesthood and a majority favour allowing woman deacons. [103] In 2014, the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland stated that the Catholic Church must ordain women and allow priests to marry in order to survive. [104]
The Women's Ordination Conference is an organization in the United States that works to ordain women as deacons, priests, and bishops in the Catholic Church.. Founded in 1975, the conference was seeded from an idea the year before, when Mary B. Lynch asked the people on her Christmas list if it was time to publicly ask "Should Catholic women be priests?"
Pope Francis indicated earlier this week through a cardinal that this is not the time for women deacons, which would seem to be a bad sign for supporters of allowing women into the priesthood ...
James Edmund Groppi (November 16, 1930 – November 4, 1985) was an erstwhile Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became well known for leading numerous protests, many times being arrested during them. [1] In 1976, he was excommunicated by the church for marrying. [2]
1960: The Church of Sweden started ordaining women as priests The three first women to be ordained were Elisabeth Djurle, Ingrid Persson and Margit Sahlin. [7] 1961: Ingrid Bjerkås became the first woman to be ordained a minister of the Church of Norway. [42] 1964: Addie Elizabeth Davis became the first Southern Baptist woman to be ordained. [43]