Who's To Be Ordained?

CDF: Inter Insignores (1976) Declaration on the question of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood. On Reserving the Priesthood to Men Alone John Paul II: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994) Responsum ad Dubium Cardinal Ratzinger's letter of 28 October 1995. Concerning the CDF Reply Cardinal Ratzinger's letter of 7 December 1995. Women's Ordination Welcome to the largest international website on the ordination of women. We are Roman Catholic theologians who firmly believe that the discussion on women priests should be left open. Spirituality/Justice Reprint Responses to the CDF document by Joan Chittister, Augustine De Noia, Avery Dulles, Hans Kung, Nicholas Lash, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Robert McClory, Rosemary Ruether, Francis A. Sullivan. Tradition and the Ordination of Women Task Force document endorsed by the Catholic Theological Society of America in June 1997. Tradition and the Ordination of Women Secretariat of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' response to the task force document endorsed by the Catholic Theological Society of America in June 1997. Catholic Bishops "Overcome Doubts" on Women's Ordination September 1997 article in Greenbelt Interfaith News. Women's Ordination Articles, letters, and documents courtesy of San Francisco Bay Catholic. Rome was not built in a day. Excellent scholarly article by Dirk Jacobs, Utrecht University, Department of General Social Sciences Did Christ rule out women priests? 1986 book by John Wijngaards, mhm. Brothers and Sisters in Christ Irish network of women and men praying and working for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church. FutureChurch National coalition of parish-based Catholics who seek the full participation of all baptized Catholics in the life of the Church. Inspired by Vatican II, FutureChurch recognizes that Eucharistic Celebration (the Mass) is the core of Roman Catholic worship and sacramental life. FutureChurch advocates that this celebration be available universally and at least weekly to all baptized Catholics. To achieve these goals, FutureChurch advocates the ordination of all baptized persons who are called to priestly ministry by God and the people of God. Women of the New Covenant An Australian missionary community praying and working for the ordination of women within the Catholic Church. Women's Ordination Conference Works for the ordination of women as priests and bishops into a renewed priestly ministry in the Roman Catholic church. Catholic Women's Ordination "We hold a vigil on the first Wednesday in the month outside Westminster Cathedral, LONDON, to ask our Bishops to use and value the gifts, talents and insights of women in the ministerial priesthood.(Vigils are held outside other Cathedrals too)" Women Priests About ten items dealing with the ordination of women. Searching the Scriptures: Women's Ordination and the Call to Biblical Fidelity An on-line book giving the Seventh Day Adventist perspective on this issue. Women in the Clergy: priests, pastors, ministers, rabbis Interesting data from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. The Question of the Ordination of Lay Men and Women to the Priesthood in the Catholic Church From the Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. Women Deacons? Are They Possible? Duane L.C.M. Galles On the Ordination of Women By Rev. Fr. Charles E. Irvin, M.B.A., M.Div. J.D., St. Mary's Parish, Manchester, Michigan. Women, Ordination, and Angels Michael Novak writes in a 1993 issue of First Things. Ordination of Women--Authority and Practicality By Annick M. Brennen, a Seventh Day Adventist. Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1992 A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England. Concerning Women's Ordination - a letter to an episcopal friend By the late Rt. Rev. Alexander Schmemann, S.T.D., LL.D, D.D., who was Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestweed, N.Y., where he also occupied the chair of Liturgical and Pastoral Theology. A Biblical and Theological Basis for Women in Ministry A solid article from the Evangelical Covenant Church. The Doves Kinswoman Reflections by Jim McKay on the biblical foundations for women's ministry in the church. Ethics and Feminism: Attitudes Towards Women in the Church By Yuri Josef Koszarycz, Senior Lecturer in Religion Studies, Department of Theology, Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus, Brisbane). Mary Magdalene the Apostle Catholic Website The people committed to this project come from a diversity of geographic and ecclesiastical backgrounds. Some are laity, others are clergy. Some are presently within the Roman Church, others are in jurisdictions outside the Roman Church. What ties all of us together is a desire to ensure that all people who are called to serve as ministers of Christ are affirmed in their vocation and are directed to those who are receptive to the ordination of women. Women who apply will, in due course, be contacted in person by a bishop who holds valid Apostolic Succession. Broken links? Suggestions?