 The Ordination of Women |
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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 Is Our Institutional Church Unjust? By Emmy Silvius in Catholica, January 2011 Women's Ordination and Other Crimes of Passion By Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street, August 5, 2010 Why Not? Scripture, History & Women's Ordination By Robert J. Egan in Commonweal, April 11, 2008 Women & the Priesthood By Sara Butler and Robert J. Egan in Commonweal, July 18, 2008 Women Bishops? Views in the Roman Catholic Church, Official and Otherwise By John Wijngaards in Women as Bishops, Continuum, 2008 Is the Roman Catholic Prohibition of Female Priests Sexist? By Michael J. Maher, Loyola University Chicago; Linda M. Sever, Loyola University Chicago; Shaun Pichler, Michigan State University. How Catholic College Students Think about Women's Ordination and Sexism. Journal of Religion & Society, 2007 Women leaders and the Catholic Church? By John Wijngaards, published by Catholics for a Changing Church, London, 2007 Order of Creation/Order of Redemption: The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church By Michael Azkoul, Orthodox Research Institute, 2007 Women Bishops: A Response to Cardinal Kasper By Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, and David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury, in Fulchrum, 2006 Will Women Ever Govern the Roman Catholic Church? By John Wijngaards in the Geneva Post Quarterly, November 2006 Different Voices /Different Choices: Feminist Perspectives on Ministry By Mary E. Hunt, July 2005 Transparent Excuses: Church's Refusal to Ordain Women Lies in Long History of Ecclesiastical Misogyny By Mary Ann Beavis, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Saskatchewan, in Winnipeg Free Press, July 31, 2005 We Are Church—A Kingdom of Priests By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, July 2005 Women and the Priesthood: A Theological Reflection By Jean Galot, S.J., from his book Theology of the Priesthood, 2005 Catholic Women Ordained Priests - alternatives By Marcel Vincent OP in les réseaux des Parvis, June 2003 Common Considerations: The Orthodox-Old Catholic Consultation on the Role of Women in the Church and the Ordination of Women as an Ecumenical Issue: Preliminary Remarks By Urs von Arx and Anastasios Kallis in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Ordination of Women in the Eyes of an Orthodox Woman By Kalliope A Bourdara in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Ordination of Women: A Contribution from Jungian Depth Psychology By Anna-Thekla Kuhnis in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Question of the Ordination of Women in the Community of Churches By Jan Visser in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Ordination of Women: Seeking a New Approach By Mary Grey at the Annual General Assembly of Catholic Women's Ordination, London, May 2002 The Scriptural Argument in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis By Reimund Bieringer in Bijdragen, 2001 Women’s Ordination: Barriers and Boundaries By Marie Louise Uhr in WomenChurch, 2001 We Will Pour Our Ointment on the Feet of the Church By Aruna Gnanadason, paper to be read at the Women’s Ordination Worldwide conference, Dublin, June-July 2000 The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages By Gary Macy in Theological Studies, September 2000 Pondering the Issue of Women’s Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church: Some Factprs To Consider By Janette Cranshaw, January 2000 Consider Tradition: A Case for Ordaining Women By Rose Hooever in Commonweal, Jan 29, 1999 The Ordination of Women: A Test Case for Conciliarity By Angela Berlis in Concilium, 1999 Meals of the Community by Suzanne Tunc, Chapter IV from Des Femmes aussi Suivant Jésus, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 1998 "Who May Dwell Within your Tent?" In Wie Mag Toeven Binnen Uw Tent?, by the commission on Woman and the Church of the Belgian Bishops' Conference, Louvain, 1998 The Exclusion of Women from the Priesthood according to Thomas Aquinas By Umberto Eco in Belief in What?, Rivages Poche/Petite bibliothèque, 1998 Augmenting the Sacred Foundation: Authority and Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church By Diane M. Caplin, Ph.D., Associate Director, Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women, 1998 Human Rights in the Church: A Non-Right for Women in the Church? By Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu in Human Rights: The Christian Contribution, July 1998 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 Article in Greenbelt Interfaith News, September 1997 Patristic Testimony on Women's Ordination in 'Inter Insigniores.' By John H. Wright in Theological Studies, September 1997 The Ordination Of Women: A Living Tradition By Dr. Dorothea McEwan in Pogranicza Wrazliwosci w Literaturze i Kulturze Dawnej Oraz Wspolczesnie-Konfrontacje, Szczecin, June 1997 Is Black White? By Sidney Callahan in Commonweal, Feb 9, 1996 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. January/February 1996 Responses to Rome By Elizabeth A. Johnson, Michael Novak, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Joseph A. Komonchak, Margaret O'Gara and Francis X. Murphy in Commonweal, January 26, 1996 Ordaining Women Is Rational: That Doesn't Make It Christian By David R. Carlin, Jr. in Commonweal, January 12, 1996 How Binding? By Klaus Nientiedt in Herder Korrespondenz, 1996 Mary, the Virgin Priest? By Dr. Tina Beattie in The Month, December 1996 Infallibility and the Ordination of Women By Richard R. Gaillardetz in Louvain Studies, 1996 Secret Priests By Joseph Dunn in No Vipers in the Vatican, The Columba Press, 1996 In Persona Christi: Towards a Second Naivete By Dennis Michael Ferrara in Theological Studies, March 1996 Rome was not built in a day By Dirk Jacobs, Utrecht University, Department of General Social Sciences, at the Second International Conference of Theory, Culture and Society, Berlin, 10-14 august 1995 Theology, Law & Women's Ordination; 'Ordinatio Sacerdotalis' One Year Later By Charles Donahue, Jr. in Commonweal, June 2, 1995 Women's Ordination and Infallibility By Hans Küng in The Tablet, December 16, 1995 A Scotistic Aside to the Ordination-of-Women Debate By Thomas A. Shannon in Theological Studies, June 1995 "In Persona Christi" By Sara Butler in Theological Studies, March 1995 In the Paraclete I Trust: Women, the Priesthood, & the Patriarchy By Marian Burkhart in Commonweal, May 6, 1994 Ordain Women? Orthodoxy Says No - But Let's Talk By John Garvey in Commonweal, July 15, 1994 Women's Ordination: Six Responses By Avery Dulles, Regina Plunkett Dowling, Catherine Mowry LaCugna, Fleming Rutledge, Robert P. George, Sara Maitland in Commonweal, July 15, 1994 Is the Ordination of Women an Ecumenical Problem? By Professor Dr. Anne Jensen in Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift, 1994 The Ordination of Women: Tradition and Meaning By Dennis Michael Ferrara in Theological Studies, December 1994 Priests Retain Right to Debate, Promote Women's Ordination National Catholic Reporter, Nov 11, 1994 Ban on Women Priests Is Shaky Conclusion: Noted Theologian Sees Scholarly Flaws By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, Sept 2, 1994 Polls: Catholics Would Like to See Women Priests National Catholic Reporter, June 17, 1994 Some Welcome Letter as 'Unchangeable Forever' By Robin T. Edwards in National Catholic Reporter, June 17, 1994 Women React in Anger and Pain: Pope's Statement Called 'Arrogant, Patronizing' By Arthur Jones in National Catholic Reporter, June 17, 1994 Slav Pope Gripped by Messianic Mission: He Sees Self Spared to Teach Values to West By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, June 17, 1994 Rome Has Spoken, and the People Are Steamed National Catholic Reporter, July 15, 1994 The Representation of Christ, Ecclesiastical Office, and Presiding at the Eucharist By Professor Dr. Anne Jensen in Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 1993 The Forbidden Subject: The Ordination of Women by Jeanne Pieper in The Catholic Woman: Difficult Choices in a Modern World, 1993 Anglicans Fleeing Women Priests Will Have to Jump through Hoops - Male Church of England Priestly Conversions to Catholicism By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, May 7, 1993 Its Principles Will Stand, but the Church Shall Change By Morris L. West in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 12, 1993 Equality but Not Symmetry By Michael Ovey, Research Fellow at Oak Hill Theological College, in Cambridge Papers, June 1992 The Ordination of Women: To Nurture Tradition by Continuing Inculturation By Kari Elisabeth Børresen in Studia Theologica, 1992 “The twelve apostles were men - -” By Ida Raming in Orientierung, 1992 Priesthood, Precedent and Prejudice: On Recovering the Women Priests of Early Christianity By Mary Ann Rossi in Journal of Feminist Studies, 1991 The Problem of the Ordination of Women in the Early Christian Priesthood By Professor Giorgio Otranto, University of Bari, Italy, 1991 The Non-ordination of Women: Tradition or Simply an Historical Fact? By Hervé Legrand in Worship, November, 1991 Richard Hooker and the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood By StephenSykes in Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition, 1990 Clergywomen and the Future By Martha Long Ice, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, in Word & World, 1988 Women's Ordination and the Leadership of the Church By Carol J. Mork, First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, MN, in Word & World, 1987 The Injustice of Not Ordaining Women: A Problem for Medieval Theologians By John Hilary Martin, O.P., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, in Theological Studies, 1987 Did Christ Rule Out Women Priests? Book by John Wijngaards, MHM., 1986 The Question of Women Priests and the argument in Persona Christi By Eric Doyle OFM in The Catholic Citizen, Winter 1985-1986 The Ordination of Women: Tradition and Meaning By Dennis M. Ferrara in Theological Studies, 1984 The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church By Eric Doyle, OFM in Feminine in the Church, Chapter Two, London 1984 ‘Equal But Other’ and the Ordination of Women By Ida Raming in Theology Digest, Spring 1981 Women and Priestly Ministry: The New Testament Evidence By Elisabeth M Tetlow in Women and Ministry in The New Testament, Paulist Press, 1979 Yes to Women Priests By Anglican clerics, prelates, and professors, 1978 Women and Priesthood: Future Directions Book edited by Carroll Stuhlmueller, C.P. The Liturgical Press, 1978 Man, Woman, and Priesthood Book edited by Peter Moore, SPCK London, 1978 New Woman, New Church, New Priestly Ministry Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Ordination of Roman Catholic Women, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1978 Women Priests: A Catholic Commentary on the Vatican Declaration Book edited by Leonard Swidler and Arlene Swidler, Paulist Press, 1977 Sexism and Church Law: Equal Rights and Affirmative Action Book edited by James A. Coriden, Paulist Press, 1977 Towards a New Theology of Ordination: Essays on the Ordination of Women Book Edited by Marianne H. Micks and Charles P.Price, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1976 Women Priests? Yes - Now! Book edited by Canon Harold Wilson, Denham House Press, 1975 The Ordination of Women: Pro and Con Book edited by Michael P. Hamilton and Nancy S. Montgomery, Morehouse Barlow Co, 1975 Can Women be Priests? Book by Paul Lakeland, 1975 To Be a Priest: Perspectives on Vocation and Ordination Book edited by Robert E. Terwilliger and Urban T. Holmes, The Seabury Press, 1975 Eve at Ephesus (Should women be ordained as pastors according to the First Letter to Timothy 2:11-15?) By Aida Dina Besancon Spencer in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1975 Women and Orders Book edited by Robert J. Heyer, Paulist Press 1974 Women Priests in the Catholic Church? A Theological-Historical Investigation Book by Haye van der Meer, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1973 Women in Ordained Ministry: A Sociologist Raises a Question by Marie Augusta Neal in Women in Ministry: A Sisters' View, National Assembly of Women Religious, Chicago, 1972 The Question of Women and the Priesthood: Can Women Be Admitted to Holy Orders? By Sister Vincent Emmanuel Hannon, published by Geoffrey Chapman, 1967 Equality of Women: The New Testament By Robert J. Willis, Ph.D. Women Deacons? Are They Possible? By 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'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 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. FutureChurch advocates the ordination of all baptized persons who are called to priestly ministry by God and the people of God 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)" 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 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 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 From the Evangelical Covenant Church Last Testament In a "last testament" sent by Msgr. John J. Egan to this newspaper just days before his death May 19, the venerable Chicago diocesan priest called for the ordination of women and married men in the Roman Catholic church |
