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The teaching of the Catholic Church on ordination, as expressed in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Ordinatio sacerdotalis (an apostolic letter), is that only a Catholic male validly receives ordination (ex opere operato), [1] and "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on ...
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".
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]
As one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world, Tropeano said the church's teachings about women affect more people than world's 1.3 billion Catholics and makes it difficult for ...
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]
Sarcophagus of the Egyptian priestess Iset-en-kheb, 25th–26th Dynasty (7th–6th century BC). In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC (circa 2160 BC).
The Rev. Michael Zacharias conducts Mass at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Mansfield in 2014. Toledo diocese: Ohio Catholic priest guilty of sex trafficking boys; allegations spanned 15 years
The following is the full text of the Rite during the Mass (after the Gospel), taken from a program for an ordination of priests for the Diocese of Peoria in 2015: The Calling of the Candidates: Those to be ordained are called by name, they stand in their place and answer: "Present". The Presentation of the Priest Candidates: