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Posts Tagged women’s ordination
Remember Cardinal Policarpo, the one who said just a bit ago that there is no theological obstacle to women’s ordination?
The patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal says there will be women priests when God wills it.
No, argues the National Catholic Reporter.
“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
73% of the general population in Germany say the Catholic Church should implement reforms such as optional celibacy and 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.”
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.
As a child, she prayed to St. Rita — much venerated in Sicily — asking for her intervention to become a priest.
Bishops with opinions
Sep 23
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?