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On September 15, the House of Bishops voted 95 to 61 to change or eliminate ambiguous places in canon law that seemed to prevent the ordination of women to the priesthood, and to clarify matters by creating a canon to affirm the ordination of women as priests and bishops. [42]
The Philadelphia Eleven is a 2023 American documentary about the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church. [1] [2] [3] The long-form documentary was developed by Time Travel Productions to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the eleven women who presented themselves for ordination at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 29, 1974.
Asked by her community to pursue studies in canon law, Kuenstler earned a licentiate and doctorate in canon law from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 1992. She served several terms as a marriage tribunal judge before opening her own practice as an independent canon lawyer with a special focus on the rights of the laity.
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]
Simon Lokodo – Ugandan State Minister of Ethics & Integrity and former diocesan priest; excommunicated in 2009 for entering politics in violation of canon law; William Lombardy – American chess grandmaster who was ordained in the 1967 but left the priesthood in the early 1980s over disillusionment with the Catholic Church
Pages in category "Canon law jurists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Feb. 20—An archdiocese-maintained list of Catholic clergy members who have been deemed "credibly accused" of sexual abuse in Northern New Mexico parishes should also include others named by ...
Fr. David Granfield, [5] Canon law jurists and Pro-Life person. Fr. Celestine Kapsner, [6] Exorcist and translator. Msgr. Barry O'Toole, [7] A founder of the Catholic Radical Alliance. Rev. Michael Patella, [8] [9] [10] Professor of Theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.