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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".
"Father Anne", born Anne Tropeano, is a Catholic who was ordained as a Catholic Priest through the Womanpriest Movement.Upon her ordination, Father Anne accepted excommunication from the institutional Roman Catholic Church, as a sign of her respect for the Church, and a peaceful protest of the historical injustice of men's only ordination in her church.
The "God Says Now" campaign has focused on getting the topic of women's ordination included in the study of the role of women in the church. Despite discussion of women's ordination in the initial ...
A recent Pew Research Poll of US Catholics showed 64% of respondents support ordaining women as priests.
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]
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?"
The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, as emphasized by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, is "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgement is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful". [98]