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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.
In 1976, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood which taught that for doctrinal, theological, and historical reasons, the church "does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination." Reasons given were the church's ...
Catholic lay women were involved in Catholic Arts and Letters in the 20th century, especially in English language literature. Sophie Treadwell was a Mexican-American Catholic laywoman who was both a journalist and a playwright in the first half of the 20th century. She wrote dozens of plays, several novels and serial stories, as well as ...
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 ...
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?"
Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety ...
The Roman Catholic Church says that they are having a priest shortage — not enough priests for the parishes in the tri-county area. There is a simple solution to that: ordain women to the ...
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]