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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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And all our sacraments involve hands: pouring water anointing with oil absolving and blessing with the sign of the cross holding hands as we make vows and exchange rings calling down the Holy Spirit at baptism confirmation and ordination with hands laid upon head and heart calling that same Spirit down upon the elements in the epiclesis holding the Eucharistic species at the consecration and again at their reception.
2 - Feb 2016 - Anglican Communion: Anglican Primates suspend US Episcopal Church over same-sex marriage, AD2000 Report
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In 2009 the General Convention of the Episcopalians resolved that Gods call is open to all in other words approved openly gay ordinations.
3 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
This Sinofication had a positive outcome and led to the first Vatican delegate in China the great Celso Costantini (1876-1958) who pushed for the ordination of the first Chinese bishops.
4 - Sep 2015 - Hebrew: The Sign of the Cross, Andrew Sholl
To me this is very reminiscent of the ordination of Catholic priests and the consecration of bishops when priests and bishops prostrate themselves with arms outstretched in the shape of a cross facing the ordaining/consecrating bishop.
5 - Aug 2015 - Confraternity of Christ the Priest’s Diamond Jubilee, Fr Thomas Casanova
Think about priestly ordination.
6 - May 2015 - The situation of Catholics in China is worsening, Lina Chan
The Pope when he issues the apostolic mandate for the ordination of a Bishop exercises his supreme spiritual authority: this authority and this intervention remain within the strictly religious sphere.
7 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
For the definitive teaching on this I would refer you to Pope Saint John Paul II Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (22 May 1994) addressed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on reserving priestly ordination to men alone.
8 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile in the Archdiocese of Melbourne the year 2015 promises to be the most favourable for vocations and ordinations for many years.
9 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Ordinations flourish in South Korea Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung Archbishop of Seoul ordained 25 deacons as priests for the Archdiocese of Seoul and three deacons from religious orders on 6 February at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall of the Olympic Park in Seoul.
10 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons
At his ordination Mass Bishop Ma publicly announced that he was resigning from the Catholic Patriotic Association as membership was incompatible with his duties as a bishop.
11 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Catholic education, Allan Choveaux
It is not surprising therefore that this same journal also reported on the recent research of Professor Denis McLaughlin of Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus Brisbane) who found that most ACU students (including student teachers) did not accept Church teaching on such areas as abortion contraception the Eucharist and womens ordination.
12 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
This arose from statements made by the Leadership Conference about womens ordination the theology of religious pluralism and the morality of homosexuality and abortion.
13 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Toowoomba trouble, Tristan Ross
Disturbingly there have also been calls by a number of priests and pastoral councils for inter-faith Eucharistic celebrations and the ordination of female priests.
14 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore
The Pastoral Council considered three possibilities lay ministry the ordination of people previously not considered in order to address the need of the parish community for Eucharist and bringing in priests from overseas.
15 - Nov 2014 - Anglican: The Ordinariate in Gippsland: the first year
Early in October last year we were looking for a place to worship our minister was awaiting ordination as a Catholic priest and our congregation was enthusiastic but at the same time apprehensive.
16 - Oct 2014 - Dissent: Bishop Bill Morris: gone but not forgotten, Peter Westmore
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson who himself retired early following disagreements with the Holy See expressed it succinctly as follows: Before ordination as a bishop every candidate is required to take an oath of loyalty to the pope - not God not the Church but the pope.
17 - Oct 2014 - The implications of Anglican women bishops, Fr Dwight Longenecker
In 1978 I was a theological student in the Church of England preparing for ordination.
18 - Sep 2014 - Association of Hebrew Catholics: its role and mission, Andrew Sholl
He wished to go to the Stella Maris Monastery following his ordination.
19 - Aug 2014 - Books: PRAY FOR ME The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis, by Robert Moynihan, Br Barry Coldrey
This covers his childhood years his ordination to the priesthood appointment as bishop elevation to the College of Cardinals and election to the papacy.
20 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
It is unusual for AD2000 to mark an ordination but the episcopal ordination of Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green of Wilcannia-Forbes deserves special mention.
21 - Jul 2014 - Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Leaving Rome 45 years after my own priestly ordination in St Peters Basilica I have come home renewed by our visit with the Holy Father.
22 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Bishop Robinson announces his divorce Bishop Gene Robinson the first openly homosexual bishop in the Anglican church whose ordination split the church is to divorce his male partner four years after being married.
23 - Apr 2014 - Conversion and confession, Cedric Wright
They spend seven years or more in seminaries during formation and at their ordination by a bishop they receive a three-fold power which sets them above all others: the power given by Our Lord to consecrate to bless and to forgive sin.
24 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2013 the Franciscan (Capuchins) ordained four young men to the priesthood and this year a similar number of Dominican friars are due for ordination.
25 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Ordination rates are at a 20-year high with the average age of new priests continuing to decline while many seminaries are at full capacity.
26 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
Moreover the new evangelisation attempts to dialogue with those of the active Catholic minority who have abandoned key areas of their faith as they move to a cafeteria Christianity according to their shifting tastes specifically: the large numbers of Catholic couples who cohabit from an early age without any thought of marriage; the many remarried divorcees some of whom are Catholics who wish to receive Holy Communion at Mass; the increasing reality of same sex partnerships even among some who consider themselves active practising Christians in the Catholic tradition; and the public disregarding by some theologians priests and religious of definitive decisions of the Churchs Magisterium such as the question of the ordination of women.
27 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
When I was a young man in my final years of preparation for ordination as a priest one of my lecturers in Church History Fr Austin Cooper often spoke about the role and importance of conservatism in the life of the Church.
28 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
At the words of ordination by the bishop who possesses the fullness of the priesthood the the new priest ceases to be just himself: his soul is taken over by the person of Christ and so he receives the Lords authority to govern and teach and His power to sanctify.
29 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
This leads to the absurdity of lay liturgical concelebrants the clamour for womens ordination and the rejection of the magisteriums doctrinal and moral authority.
30 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
Since his priestly ordination Bishop Julian has shown great zeal for the spread of the faith outreach to youth and fostering of vocations through rallies seminars and constant teaching.
31 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
In between these assignments he was accepted as a candidate for the priesthood by the Adelaide Archdiocese and given his qualifications and experience he was required only to complete a one year program at the St Pauls National Seminary in Sydney prior to his ordination in 1975.
32 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Ordination Karol Wojtyla was ordained in Krakow in November 1946 after which his bishop Cardinal Sapieha sent him to Rome where he studied for two years obtaining a doctorate in philosophy from the Angelicum the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in 1948.
33 - Jul 2013 - Youth: Melbourne's young adult ministry continues its revival, Br Barry Coldrey
Revolutionary ideas After ordination Father Cardijn developed two revolutionary ideas which would have a permanent influence on Catholic ministry worldwide and are enjoying a revival today.
34 - Jun 2013 - Books: AGE OF MARTYRS: from Diocletian to Constantine, Abbot Joseph Ricciotti, Br Barry Coldrey
Within a few years of his ordination Ricciotti began a distinguished career teaching Hebrew and Church history in various Italian universities.
35 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
Within a few years of his ordination in Siena in 1547 Peretti developed a reputation as an outstanding preacher and theologian.
36 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
There are also three men studying for the ordained ministry at the North American College in Rome and two deacons in Melbourne are awaiting ordination to the priesthood later this year.
37 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
The sheer wonder of the priesthood is that by the miracle of his ordination the priest is made into a nother Christ and thereby continues the holiest and highest thing that was ever on the earth: God the Sons sacrificial love for God the Father and this truly awesome reality is what is protected by celibacy A man does not become a priest because he has some talent or other or because he likes liturgy or because he wants to study the Scriptures or win a doctorate in theology or any other reason: he becomes a priest because he cannot resist the Person Jesus Christ and losing himself in Him.
38 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
In late 2012 the General Synod of the Church of England narrowly defeated legislation which would have allowed the ordination of women bishops.
39 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
Ordination With something like a third of all land in the hands of Church corporations (dioceses parishes monasteries friaries convents) a great deal of wealth was shared by clergy.
40 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
OCollins spent 13 years preparing to take his final vows before ordination to the priesthood.
41 - Nov 2012 - Shanghai's new auxiliary bishop: a prophet and a hero, Bernard Cervellera
Through these gestures Msgr Ma also affirms that the ordination of a pastor is not a political issue manipulated by those in power but a religious act in which the Pope and his instructions are to be respected for the sake of truth.
42 - Oct 2012 - Anglican Ordinariate: Melbourne ordinations: historic day for Church in Australia, Peter Westmore
The ordination of eight men to the Catholic priesthood in Melbourne on 8 September four of whom were former Anglican priests who have joined the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a historic event for the Catholic Church in Australia.
43 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
Among the ACP surveys findings were: 77pc support the ordination of women as priests.
44 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Vatican approved new Chinese bishop missing The Vatican had praised the approved ordination of a Chinese bishop who is now missing after announcing his split from the state-run Catholic Patriotic Association during his ordination.
45 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Women priests, Francis Vrizmoed
According a survey conducted in February 2012 by the Irish radio station News Talk 70% of Irish priests favoured the ordination of women.
46 - Aug 2012 - Benedict XVI sets up Anglican Ordinariate for Australia, Monsignor Harry Entwistle
The first ordination to the Catholic priesthood to serve in the Ordinariate took place in Perth when the present writer was ordained and also named as the first Ordinary.
47 - Jul 2012 - Letters: US religious women, Richard Congram
Those deviations included avoiding or rejecting Church teachings on abortion euthanasia family life human sexuality and the ordination of women as well as public disagreement with positions adopted by the American bishops.
48 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Papal infallibility, Peter D. Howard
Papal infallibility was covered as follows through EWTN which a decade ago provided an answer to me from David Gregson: You are correct in stating that the Pope exercises his charism of infallibility not only in dogmatic definitions issued ex cathedra as divinely revealed (of which there have been only two) but also in doctrines definitively proposed by him also ex cathedra which would include canonisations (that they are in fact Saints enjoying the Beatific Vision in heaven) moral teachings (such as contained in Humanae vitae) and other doctrines he has taught as necessarily connected with truths divinely revealed such as that priestly ordination is reserved to men.
49 - Jun 2012 - Women Religious: Vatican takes action against dissenting US nuns, Babette Francis
Its hard-hitting report was published in April 2012 criticising the LCWR for its refusal to accept Catholic teaching on abortion human sexuality and womens ordination and for its association with NETWORK (a radical social justice lobby group founded in 1971).
50 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
A year before your ordination the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul was killed.
51 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact around Australia seminary numbers are rising and ordinations to the priesthood are more frequent.
52 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
He first encountered these centres as part of mission training in the seminary and has continued to visit them since ordination.
53 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
Ordination In January 1968 he secretly joined the banned Dominican Order and received the monastic name Dominik.
54 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Service US Bishop calls for renewal in catechesis Bishop Alexander Sample 50 of Marquette US was interviewed at the end of last year by The Catholic World Report on the fifth anniversary of his episcopal ordination.
55 - Nov 2011 - Ad Limina: The Australian bishops' 2011 ad limina visit to Rome, Michael Gilchrist
At the time of his episcopal ordination in 1993 Bishop Morris made the usual promise to uphold all the Churchs teachings while the Statement of Conclusions agreed to by the Australian bishops as a body in 1999 said in no uncertain terms: It is their the bishops grave responsibility clearly and unambiguously to proclaim the Churchs teaching and to do all that they can to preserve the faithful from error .
56 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
To assist in dealing with the questions that correspondents have raised the Permanent Committee has resolved to refer the issue of process and the doctrinal matter of the infallibility of the teaching on womens ordination respectively to the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
57 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
Hesemann: Indeed this is the intention of the book which was written on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the priestly ordination of His Holiness the Pope and his brother Monsignor Georg Ratzinger.
58 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Pell: strong leadership needed In his homily at the Episcopal Ordination for Bishop Peter Comensoli as a new auxiliary bishop for Sydney on 8 June Cardinal George Pell said that if bishops dodge confrontation we should not be too surprised when others go missing too.
59 - Jul 2011 - Reflection: Christ's priestly promise: 'I am with you always', Fr John O'Neill
And so the priest must stand in awe for by ordination he is lifted into Christ becomes Christ the Priest the most obvious means by which the Son of God is with us always.
60 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Letter to Toowoomba Chronicle, Zelda Richardson
Especially when you consider that upon his ordination to the priesthood and later as a bishop he made a vow of obedience.
61 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
Reflections on an ordination golden anniversary is thought-provoking.
62 - Jun 2011 - Archbishop Hickey: tribute to an outstanding Church leader, Brian Peachey
Dire predictions were made of future priestless parishes and there were demands for the ordination women.
63 - Jun 2011 - Why Pope Benedict removed Toowoomba's dissenting bishop, Michael Gilchrist
Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Churchs faithful.
64 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
The Pope also published five books: Crossing the Threshold of Hope; Gift and Mystery: On the 50th Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination; Roman Triptych Meditations; Rise Let Us Be On Our Way; and Memory and Identity published in the year he died.
65 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
We his priests by what he gives us in Ordination are Christ to the world today and the world needs to see his Charity in and among us and then receive it from us especially through the Bread of Life.
66 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
What sense does it make for instance to engage students in a discussion of the possibility of the admission of women to Holy Orders when the students have little or no knowledge of the consistent teaching of the Holy Scriptures and Tradition on the Sacred Priesthood and on the reservation of priestly ordination to men?
67 - Mar 2011 - Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans: worldwide progress, Michael Gilchrist
In its communiqu the Holy See explained that for doctrinal reasons the Church does not in any circumstances allow the ordination of married men as bishops.
68 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
In addition the statement envisaged that Anglican clergy who decided to convert would begin a period of intense formation for ordination as Catholic priests.
69 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
He shows the rapid decline of such a perspective in recent years and the increasing incoherence of the Anglican position with Anglo-Catholic hopes dashed by the failure of the ARCIC process and the introduction of the ordination of women.
70 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
This is the edited text of Cardinal George Pells homily given on 16 August at the 25th Anniversary of Ordination Mass for the Class of 1985 Corpus Christi College Clayton at Mary MacKillop Church Keilor Downs Melbourne Archdiocese.
71 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Vatican womens ordination statement Archbishop Donald Wuerl of the US bishops Committee on Doctrine has welcomed the Vaticans recent clarification on the canonical penalties for the attempted ordination of women saying the action shows the seriousness with which it holds offences against the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
72 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIEST IMAGE OF CHRIST: Through Fifteen Centuries of Art, Terri Kelleher
World class Among my many favourites in this collection is one of a young priest on the day of his ordination which is full of emotion (pages 64-65).
73 - Aug 2010 - Liberalism: Christian churches and the 'religious left', Babette Francis
Other issues on which Catholic doctrine does not permit alternative views such as the ordination of women and homosexual marriage are also supported by the religious left which at the same time has a strong commitment to multiculturalism and diversity combating man-made climate change and expanding government services - all issues on which Catholics may legitimately have a range of opinions.
74 - Jul 2010 - Books: CONVINCED BY THE TRUTH: Embracing the Fullness of Catholic Faith, John Fleming, John McCarthy
His book is a scalpel-like dissection of the collapse and decay of Anglicanism under the fissures generated by the ordination of women issue.
75 - Jul 2010 - Two views: Vatican II, infallibility and the Church today, James Bogle and John Young
An example of the infallible Ordinary Magisterium is the teaching that the matter of the Sacrament of Ordination is a baptised male.
76 - Jun 2010 - Books: THE KING'S ACHIEVEMENT, Robert Hugh Benson, Michael E. Daniel
The clergyman son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury his conversion to Catholicism and subsequent ordination as a Catholic priest sparked a controversy.
77 - May 2010 - Books: BE TO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST, by Fr Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Michael Daniel
The second section is a collection of homilies preached at Masses of thanksgiving for newly ordained or those celebrating an anniversary of ordination.
78 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
However this was stalled when the Anglican Communion went ahead with the ordination of women and the approval of homosexual activity.
79 - May 2010 - Anglican: Anglicans and Christian unity: progress report, Bishop David Robarts
But progress in this direction has been set back more recently with the ordination of women and other issues of the gender agenda which have become a source of deep division within the Anglican Communion.
80 - Mar 2010 - Culture of Life: Cardinal Pell receives pro-life von Galen Award, Babette Francis
After his ordination he worked at Saint Matthias Church in Berlin where he became close friends with Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli later to be Pope Pius XII.
81 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Complementarity, Kathleen Wood
This tradition interprets first and foremost a fact of sacred history not judging what may be regarded as complementarity or even the biblical creation of male and female as dependent on the ordination of men only.
82 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Ken Bayliss
Fifteen years is too long for feminists and their fellow travellers to continue disobeying the definitive judgment of Pope John Paul II in 1994 that the Church has no authority to allow the ordination of women.
83 - Dec 2009 - Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study, Phil Lawler
Given Bishop Gumbletons very public position on certain important matters of Catholic teaching specifically with regard to homosexuality and the ordination of women to the priesthood it was my judgment that his presence in Marquette would not be helpful to me in fulfilling my responsibility (emphasis mine).
84 - Dec 2009 - Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber', Michael Gilchrist
Forward in Faith is an association of Anglican clergy and lay people opposed to the ordination of women and active homosexuals within the Anglican Communion.
85 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In March Benedict lifted the excommunications of four Lefebvrite bishops who were excommunicated in 1988 when they received episcopal ordination illicitly at the hands of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who ordained them without papal permission.
86 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
This brief outline does not examine every aspect of the question of eligibility for priestly ordination in the Catholic Church.
87 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
It was reasoned that a priest no longer receives an indelible mark on his soul at ordination or more precisely that no priest ever did.
88 - Oct 2009 - Editorial: Anglican Communion's moment of truth, Michael Gilchrist
The nominations follow resolutions of the branch of the Anglican Communion in the United States the Episcopal Church in July to open ordination to the episcopate of clergy in homosexual relationships despite opposition from both Archbishop Williams and the last Lambeth Conference.
89 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
Additionally in many places in the Catholic world the Easter Season is the time when celebrations of Ordinations often occur.
90 - Sep 2009 - USA: Anglicans fragmenting over homosexuality, Babette Francis
However worldwide schism within the Anglican Communion now appears to be happening after the US Episcopalian Bishops voted 99-45 in July at their 76th General Convention in Annaheim California to officially allow and affirm the ordination of practising homosexuals to any ordained ministry.
91 - Aug 2009 - Is this where 'progressive' religious life is heading?, AD2000 REPORT
The crunch came immediately: the active gay and lesbian life styles were endorsed; the ordination of women to priestly ministry was supported; the obligation to preach the Gospel and to convert people to the Catholic faith was declared unnecessary a threat to ecumenism peace and harmony in a pluralistic world; the writer was also opposed to war: something at least we can agree on.
92 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
It was a mission which very much appealed to the young Tony Glynn and shortly after his ordination he departed for a new life in Japan.
93 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Ecumenism, Gary Crothers
They do not have Christs real presence in their communion and nor valid ordination of their priests or bishops.
94 - May 2009 - Letters: Women in the Church, Brian Bibby
Some of the reasons given for allowing womens ordination are: When Christ established His Church He was restricted by the culture of the day.
95 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel
The ordination of women has now extended to bishops causing further divisions - within dioceses and between dioceses and provinces - as illustrated by the refusal of a number of Anglican bishops to attend the last Lambeth Conference.
96 - Apr 2009 - Conversion: Peter has spoken through Leo: why I became a Catholic, Michael Daniel
The ordination of women to the diaconate at the time also undermined the Anglican Churchs claims to catholicity.
97 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
Exactly one year later Cardinal OConnor to whom Father Neuhaus was exceptionally devoted ordained him a Catholic priest; Father Dulles vested him in the ordination ceremony.
98 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
Some religious institutes speak primarily of ministry rather than the priesthood in a mistaken attempt not to offend opponents of Catholic teaching on womens ordination.
99 - Feb 2009 - Fundamental flaws in Bishop Robinson's book, Andrew Kania
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100 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In an interview with LOsservatore Romano on the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood Cardinal Arinze explained that a different placement of the sign of peace is under consideration.
101 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
Womens ordination However in 1993 troubled in conscience at the ever-increasing pressure within the Anglican Church for the ordination of women Fr Taylor to the great regret of his superiors and parishioners resigned from the Anglican ministry and began his spiritual journey once again; this time from being Catholic layman through the stages of ordination until he was finally priested in 1995.
102 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
It is the means of producing children: By safeguarding both these essential aspects the unitive and the procreative the conjugal act preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its ordination towards mans most high calling to parenthood (HV n.
103 - Sep 2008 - Reflection: Archbishop Burke of St Louis: the responsibilities of a bishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke
Recalling the grace of the sacrament of Holy Orders at work in the Apostles and in the first missionaries to our region and witnessing the conferral of the grace in the ordination of our new bishop let us pray for the new evangelisation of his diocese that the faithful under the care and with the guidance of their shepherd may teach celebrate and live our Catholic faith with new enthusiasm and new energy with the enthusiasm and the energy of the first disciples and of the first Catholics who established the Church in what is now the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau.
104 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
Adults receiving some sacraments such as the Eucharist Ordination and Matrimony must be in the state of Grace to receive each worthily.
105 - Aug 2008 - Priesthood: St Louis: another US vocations success story, AD2000 Report
On Saturday 20 May nine young men from the Kenrick- Glennon Seminary were ordained as priests for the St Louis Archdiocese - the largest ordination class in 25 years and one of the largest in the US.
106 - Jul 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
au The Catholic Priesthood and Women Sara Butler MSBT Sister Sara Butler a former advocate of womens ordination provides a clear concise easy to follow defence and exposition of the Catholic Churchs traditional teaching on the subject.
107 - Jun 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
The Catholic Priesthood and Women Sara Butler MSBT Sister Sara Butler a former advocate of womens ordination provides a clear concise easy to follow defence and exposition of the Catholic Churchs traditional teaching on the subject.
108 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Scandal, Don Gaffney
DON GAFFNEY Tarragindi Qld (Update: On May 30 2008 Cardinal Levada has published LOsservatore Romano a decree with immediate effect that anyone attempting to confer ordination on a woman or any woman who attempts to receive Holy Orders automatically incurs latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Holy See.
109 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The Lambeth meeting which brings together Anglican prelates from around the world every ten years will face tough decisions on divisive questions such as the ordination of female bishops and the acceptance of same-sex unions.
110 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Binding document - On Ordinatio Sacerdotalis responsum ad dubium (1995), George Simpson
GEORGE SIMPSON North Blackburn Vic On Ordinatio Sacerdotalis Responsum ad Dubium Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith October 28 1995 Dubium: Whether the teaching that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women which is presented in the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis to be held definitively is to be understood as belonging to the deposit of faith.
111 - Apr 2008 - Church law: Conciliar decrees: what authority do they have?, Frank Mobbs
Avarice was the more usual motive for those appointed could draw the revenues of the benefice without ordination and without residing in them.
112 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford
Their priests can marry before ordination.
113 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
A sign of hope amid so much violence and despair is how Mgr Louis Sako Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk described the ordination of three new deacons that took place last year in Ankawa Kurdistan at the Church of St Joseph.
114 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Let me give three examples: Recently the Collins/Purcell petition has been seeking to present to the Australian Bishops a request concerning the criteria for ordination to the priesthood.
115 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
A case in point is a recent petition doing the rounds of parishes throughout Australia which carries the name of Paul Collins and others of like mind and includes the recommendation in part four: Encourage a wide-ranging discussion of the role of women in ministry and in the authority structures of the Church including the question of womens ordination.
116 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The petition calls for new forms of ministry and leadership and among other things for encouragement of wide-ranging discussion of the role of women in ministry and in the authority structures of the Church including the question of womens ordination.
117 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Petition
It was most disappointing that he should have taken this action given that the petition among other things calls on the Australian Bishops to (4) Encourage a wide-ranging discussion of the role of women in ministry and in the authority structures of the Church including the question of womens ordination.
118 - Nov 2007 - Poetry: A poem on the priesthood - Among the Apostles, John O'Neill
The first words in the Prayer of Ordination.
119 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Bishop Robinson, Fr Edward P. Evans
Of the boys who used to enter the minor seminaries 92 percent quit before ordination so there are relatively few priests today who went through these seminaries; and few of those ordained in recent decades have been under the age of 25.
120 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In his letter the bishop said he believed the movement towards womens ordination had greatly died down with the understanding that men and women are equal but have different roles in life and are not at odds with one another but complement one another.
121 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
This is the edited text of Bishop Robert Finns address in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at an Ordination Mass for the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph.
122 - May 2007 - Letters: Thank you from India, Fr. A. Joseph
I am happy to inform you that I will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of my priestly ordination on 25 May 2007.
123 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Null and void, Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
It was a surprise to read in the February AD2000 that the Bishop of Toowoomba has suggested that the shortage of priests of crisis proportions in some dioceses including his own could be met by the ordination of women.
124 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
Two years after his ordination when Sheen began his studies at Belgiums University of Louvain in 1921 he recalled the Bishops words.
125 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
I entered the seminary in 1976 after graduating from eighth grade (parochial school) and continued from high school seminary to college seminary to major seminary until ordination in 1988.
126 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The new fraternity will include five priests and a number of seminarians including several who are in line for ordination to the priesthood shortly.
127 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
As you know we believe that our faith and the constitution of the college of the apostles obliges us and doesnt allow us to confer priestly ordination on women.
128 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
These groups whose common characteristic is that of dissent have expressed themselves in public statements in favour of communal absolution and womens ordination and have misrepresented the true meaning of marriage by proposing and practising the blessing of unions between homosexual persons.
129 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency China halts illicit ordinations The Chinese Government apparently decided in July to stop the illicit ordination of Catholic bishops according to a Hong Kong auxiliary bishop.
130 - Sep 2006 - USA: Liberal Christianity goes into meltdown, Charlotte Allen
Evangelical and Pentecostal churches which preach biblical morality have no trouble saying that Jesus is Lord and they generally eschew womens ordination.
131 - Aug 2006 - Scripture and Tradition: sources of divine revelation, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Women priests In our own day John Paul II settled the dispute about the ordination of women to the priesthood in the same way.
132 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
The ordination of women by the Anglican Church and women in ministerial roles in other Christian churches leaves the Catholic and Orthodox churches increasingly isolated on the question of womens ordination I have no doubt that ordination of women will eventually happen but not yet and not in the current form and style of priesthood (p.
133 - Aug 2006 - Canberra-Goulburn: Archbishop Coleridge: Benedict's first Australian appointment, Anh Nguyen
After ordination he served at parishes in East St Kilda Drysdale Doncaster East Ashburton and Pascoe Vale.
134 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Kasper had warned that ordination of female bishops would radically alter the nature of ecumenical ties.
135 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The Government had clearly told the vice-president of the Patriotic Association Liu Bainian that he must put a stop to these ordinations the Cardinal told the French Catholic daily La Croix.
136 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The author of De Ecclesiatica Hierarchia (500AD) commenting on the ordination of priests wrote in terms familiar to our Rite of Ordination that the approach to the holy altar and their prostrating themselves makes clear to all who are admitted to holy orders that they must submit their personal lives entirely to God from whom they receive their consecration as priests.
137 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
However in 1996 the National Conference of the Catholic Bishops Committee on Doctrine in the US censured this edition for certain shortcomings including his treatment of the Virgin Birth of Jesus the perpetual virginity of Mary the ordination of women his treatment of moral issues such as homosexuality and contraception and about his tendency to place the teaching of the Church on the same level as the opinion of dissenting theologians.
138 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Denvers most ordinations in 40 years Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver ordained 11 new priests for his archdiocese on 13 May on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Con-ception.
139 - Jun 2006 - China defies Holy See to 'ordain' two bishops, Peter Westmore
Following the Chinese Governments decision to appoint two priests as bishops of the Catholic Patriotic Church in China the Vatican has excommunicated the two bishops and also the bishops who ordained them saying Church law mandates this penalty for bishops involved in ordinations without Vatican approval.
140 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
Women priests Also disheartening was Benedicts decisive rejection of any reopening of the question of ordination for women.
141 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
But for her the worst example of John Pauls inflexibility was his refusal even to contemplate the possibility of the ordination of women.
142 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
They held that the policies of the Vatican recent episcopal appointments and the influence of backroom conservatives are the reasons why the advances inspired by Vatican II have stalled: in the enculturation of the liturgy; in the participation of the laity especially of women; in the decision-making processes of the Church; in the ordination of married men and in moderating the law of celibacy; in a renewed understanding of human sexuality and in the inclusion of minority lifestyles in the Eucharist.
143 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Clerical Celibacy (letter), Fr Adrian Head
From the beginnings of the Church and throughout the Greco-Latin world a single rule prevailed: priests were celibate; or else if they had married before ordination they and their wives promised to live together thereafter without the use of the marriage.
144 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
In the early 1960s when I was a young man and a candidate for ordination the Church was enjoying something of a revival.
145 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon
Leaving aside the question of whether the Lord is going to bless dissent with abundant vocations is the other more practical question of what young man firmly committed to and in love with the Lord and His Church is going to seek ordination in a diocese where the clergy has a reputation for chewing up orthodox people both clerical and lay and spitting them out?
146 - Feb 2006 - Liturgical Music: The spiritual impact of Msgr. Richard Schuler's priestly leadership and example, Fr John T. Zuhlsdorf
Schuler of the Minneapolis-St Paul Archdiocese who celebrated his 60th Jubilee of priestly ordination on 30 October 2005 at the Church of St Agnes where he had been parish priest until his retirement in 2001.
147 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Philip Holberton
The Catholic Encyclopaedia says: It seems that most of the bishops present at Nicaea were disposed to follow the precedent of the Council of Elvira prohibiting conjugal relations to those bishops priests deacons and sub-deacons who were married before ordination.
148 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
This article is the summary of a discussion I had with a group of transitional deacons on the cusp of ordination to the priesthood.
149 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In 1980 Pope John Paul II made possible the ordination of married Episcopal priests who were seeking full communion with the Catholic Church.
150 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Among other propositions is an affirmation of clerical celibacy along with a request that the reasons for the relationship between celibacy and priestly ordination be better explained to the faithful in full respect for the traditions of the Eastern churches.
151 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
in the tragic divisions in the Anglican Churches over the ordination of homosexually active bishops; but the root causes are similar.
152 - Aug 2005 - Anglican update: an orthodox fight-back, Fr Christopher Seton
Afraid of losing we concentrated on making ourselves a small target and the ecclesiastical establishment obligingly assisted in this policy as one by one our parishes were picked off orthodox ordination candidates were rejected and the pastoral emergency deepened.
153 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
During the ordination Mass at the Sign of Peace I witnessed John Paul II give Patrick what could best be described as a huge bear hug.
154 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Chicago Archdioceses ordinations increase During a three-hour ceremony at Chicagos Cathedral in May Cardinal Francis George ordained 16 men to the priesthood - the largest ordination class of any diocese in the United States.
155 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
It is the same mystery of sanctification and love through the Holy Spirit that makes the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ which is also bestowed upon the person of the future minister at the moment of priestly ordination.
156 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto
Why did he not permit the ordination of married men when in many parts of the world especially France octogenarian priests serve 20 or more altars because of the churchs vocation crisis?
157 - Apr 2005 - 'Flying bishops' consecrated for orthodox Anglicans, Fr Nigel Zimmerman
(FIF is a traditionalist organisation created to protect and minister to Anglicans who in conscience cannot recognise the ordination of women as priests and are no longer in full communion with bishops who have broken Catholic faith and order).
158 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
How many people including priests who advocate the ordination of married men personally encourage candidates for the priesthood or ask them: Have you ever thought of becoming a priest?
159 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
On ordination its priests will serve for several years in the Sydney Archdiocese before being assigned to other parts of the world.
160 - Feb 2005 - Books: Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, by John Paul II, Richard Egan
Available from AD Books) These reflections by Pope John Paul II written on the occasion of the forty-fifth anniversary of his ordination as a bishop give a further insight into the rich personality and faith-filled soul of this extraordinary man.
161 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Anglicanism about to implode says UK bishop The Anglican Archbishop of York David Hope told the The Telegraph (London) on 5 December that because of the ordination of an actively homosexual bishop the Anglican Church is on the verge of implosion.
162 - Nov 2004 - Orthodoxy: Anglican Synod 2004: Are liberal Anglicanism's days numbered?, Rev Nigel Zimmerman
Forward in Faith (FIF) is an international organisation which began in response to the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion.
163 - Oct 2004 - Liturgy: Why priests should stick to the Mass texts, Bishop T.J. Paprocki
The obligation of obedience is even more pronounced in the case of priests and deacons who make a promise of obedience and respect at the time of their ordination.
164 - Oct 2004 - Editorial: Addressing the shortfall of priests, Michael Gilchrist
However even in these centres the number of priests leaving active service continues to exceed ordinations so that the shortfall keeps growing with various temporary measures having to be implemented.
165 - Sep 2004 - Books: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip Jenkins, John Barich
The book provides an excellent coverage of the emergent situation but suffers from unexamined theological opinions on such matters as women clergy and the ordination of homosexuals.
166 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
The Nuncio pointed to the ordination figures for France for that year to show the reason for his depression.
167 - May 2004 - Liturgy: Cardinal George of Chicago examines post-Vatican II liturgical reforms, Michael Gilchrist
Pastorally every bishop has been asked: Since we no longer recognise certain saints on the Churchs calendar why cant the Church correct her teaching on sexual morality on womens ordination and on other difficult doctrines?
168 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Married with three children he received a papal dispensation permitting his ordination in the Catholic Church for the Archiocese of Adelaide in 1995.
169 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist
A similar picture has emerged from the recent research of Professor Denis McLaughlin of Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus Brisbane) who found that most ACU students (including student teachers) did not accept Church teaching on such areas as abortion contraception the Eucharist and womens ordination.
170 - Mar 2004 - USA: American bishops critical of their RE texts, Zenit News Service
In some texts the teaching about the Churchs restriction of ordination to men is ambiguous or even misleading.
171 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ
Among the many coordinated activities of this new cell during a period of 20-25 hours the most important are: 1) The organisation of the new genome which represents the principal information and co-ordination centre for the development of the new human being and all its later activities; 2) the beginning of the first process of mitosis which leads to the two-cell embryo.
172 - Feb 2004 - Liturgy: 'Excellent start' on accurate English Missal translation, AD2000 REPORT
Liturgiam Authenticam recommended that there be a single translation of the liturgical books for each vernacular language brought about by means of co-ordination among the Bishops of those regions where the same language is spoken.
173 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Voice of the Faithful, St Michael's Group
Some of these include: Women and the Australian Church (WATAC) whose Issues and Concerns include to work to change oppressive Church structures in Church and society and in particular to address the issue of the ordination of women.
174 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
He said that among Catholics today one extreme is for the ordination of women and the other extreme is against.
175 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Hypocrisy (letter), Frank Bellet
Pat Robertson the CEO of Christian Television revealed how he recently asked one of the Episcopalian bishops who supported the ordination of the gay bishop what he would think of a clergyman who deserted his wife and children and went to live with another woman; would he be scandalised?
176 - Sep 2003 - Culture: Second 'Carnivale Christi' Catholic arts festival scheduled for Melbourne, Michael Gilchrist
Prior to his ordination in 1998 he had had a long and distinguished career as a festival director a director of theatre and an opera producer as well as being a lecturer in Opera Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts.
177 - Sep 2003 - Dissident US group establishing a foothold in Australian parishes, Mary-Ruth Monsour
While it is basically a lay volunteer movement many of its US leadership are already associated with dissenting groups including Call to Action CORPUS We are Church and womens ordination bodies.
178 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs naming of Fathers Anthony Fisher OP and Julian Porteous to fill two vacancies in Australias senior Archdiocese of Sydney - with their episcopal ordinations due on September 3 - is of particular significance.
179 - Sep 2003 - Editorial: The future of the Anglican Church, Peter Westmore
The worldwide Anglican communion faces a very real prospect of disintegration as a result of growing divisions over the ordination of homosexual bishops recognition of same sex marriages and adoption of Being Human a new document by the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England which critics have said equates unmarried relationships with marriage and suggests that a good divorce is better than a bad marriage.
180 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Incidentally most of the students from Australia and New Zealand who were studying with me in Rome for the priesthood a highly talented group of men either chose not to be ordained or left the priesthood after ordination.
181 - Aug 2003 - US research survey: younger priests are generally more orthodox, AD2000
There is a clear tendency in the direction of greater doctrinal orthodoxy in the precise measure that a priests ordination date is more removed in time from the 60s cultural revolution period - whether before or after.
182 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Gift and Mystery published in 1996 was written for the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination and relied heavily on his personal experiences in ministry.
183 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon
As Ms Livingstone recalled before his ordination in Rome in 1966 Deacon Pell qualified for his Licentiate in Theology with a dissertation presenting A Birds Eye View of Teilhard de Chardin in Christology.
184 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Holy Orders (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
I would like to comment on the letter Infallible by Fr John Crothers PP in which he observes that John Paul IIs statement on womens ordination Ordinatio Sacerdotalis has never been proclaimed as an infallible statement by the Holy Father.
185 - May 2003 - Letters: Infallible (letter), George Simpson
The Holy Fathers defining statement in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is most explicit: Wherefore in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance a matter which pertains to the Churchs divine constitution itself in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (Luke 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Churchs faithful.
186 - May 2003 - Letters: Definitive teachings (letter), Jerome Gonzalez
The Holy See also pointed out the gravity of the scandal of encouraging Catholic women to continue pushing for womens ordination.
187 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
while the declining numbers entering the priesthood and religious life prompt claims of a crisis in the Church and calls for optional clerical celibacy the ordination of women and lay-led priest-less parishes.
188 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Infallible? (letter), Fr John Crothers PP
In a recent letter entitled Infallible teaching George Simpson asks why many Catholics do not recognise John Paul IIs statement on womens ordination Ordinatio Sacerdotalis as infallible.
189 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
Ordination as a sacrament and the threefold ministry of episcopate presbyterate and diaconate.
190 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
A priests commitment to his promises of ordination is strengthened when he sees the commitment of couples to their marriage vows.
191 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), John F. Nolan
Such matters as the ordination of women married clergy return of priests who have left active ministry greater use of the Third Rite of Reconciliation and a number of others although understandable in a world where diversity is the rule for the moment can only be noted and if possible communicated to the authorities of the Church through the appropriate channels.
192 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
It is now taken for granted that the process of assessing ex-Anglicans for ordination should be done by a Triumvirate here in England and not by the Curia in Rome.
193 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Infallible teaching (letter), George Simpson
In recent issues of AD2000 reference has been made to the continuing dissent from the Popes ruling that the Church has no authority to confer priestly ordination on women.
194 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Teaching the truth (letter), Dennis MacDonald
Keane does this by quoting Groome himselfs boasting how he used his catechetical method to lead members of a parish altar society to change their position of support for the Churchs teaching on the non-ordination of women to the priesthood to one of opposition to it.
195 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In a letter dated 16 May 2002 Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez - at the time the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship - said: Ordination to the diaconate or priesthood of persons with homosexual tendencies is absolutely inadvisable and imprudent and from a pastoral point of view extremely risky.
196 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Women's Commission (2) (letter), Dr Myles M. Kehoe
Almost without exception they were exhorting the laity to request the ordination of women and the restoration of the Third Rite of Reconciliation.
197 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
In the Archbishops September 2002 Pastoral Letter on the conclusions of deanery and special consultations the call for the ordination of women was described as an indication of the tension in the Church between its local and universal reality while at the first Preparation Day in October references by Fr David Pascoe and the Archbishop to theologians continuing to debate the possibility of women priests reinforced the impression that the irrevocable nature of the Popes declaration on male-only priests was being widely misinterpreted or disregarded.
198 - Dec 2002 - Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor, Michael Gilchrist
That survey found most student teachers did not accept Church teaching on such areas as abortion contraception the Eucharist and womens ordination and on these there were no significant differences between first year and final year students.
199 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Vatican Information Service No women deacons International Theological Commission clarifies Churchs stance The secretary of the International Theological Commission (ITC) issued a statement in October indicating that contrary to earlier reports the group had not left the door open for the ordination of women as deacons.
200 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Office of Bishop (letter), Fr Brendan T. Walters MSC
By applying words like re-examining revisiting or re-articulating to issues such as the ordination of women celibacy sexuality and homosexuality Bishop Power has called into question traditional Catholic teaching.
201 - Nov 2002 - Father Fessio: real US crisis is 'spiritual abuse', Karl Maurer
For this reason the ordination of women is impossible.
202 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
These answers by Bishop Power to the question of the ordination of women are difficult to reconcile with the teaching of the Church as spelled out by the Holy Father in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis.
203 - Oct 2002 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women justifies its existence, Michael Gilchrist
For example: Identify current and planned action concerning policies of care to respond to the pain of people and groups of people within the Church who are struggling with the implications of Church teaching by providing guidelines to assist in the pastoral care of those who are finding difficulty in understanding and accepting the Churchs teaching on the restriction of ordination to males.
204 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore
This clearly was the view of the seminary staff and his own bishop who sent him to Propaganda Fide College in Rome where he completed his studies for the priesthood before his ordination in St Peters Basilica in 1966.
205 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Horse and cart (letter), Arthur Negus
However none allows priests to marry after ordination.
206 - Aug 2002 - Reflection: What Catholics should expect of their priests: men 'clothed in holiness', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
High standard From the above we can see that the Church expects an almost impossibly high standard of virtue from her priests; but then we must remember that the priest has been by his ordination raised to extraordinary heights of grace as the minister of the most high God.
207 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Experts? (letter), Jerome Gonzalez
AD2000 (July 2002) states in The Church around the World that one Thomas Groome widely quoted in Australian Catholic educational circles as a catechetics expert has declared (among other gems) that those who hope for a systemic overhaul of priestly ministry know that when celibacy is taken off the table the same surely follows for womens ordination.
208 - Aug 2002 - New study of US seminary formation exposes fundamental flaws, John S. Webster
Many candidates are rejected by selection staff favouring the ordination of women or gay rights and/or by psychologists whose understandings of the human person do not accord with the Churchs.
209 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Vatican repeats Church teaching on ordination Excommunication ultimatum for schismatic women priests The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration on 10 July warning seven Catholic women purported to have received ordination from the hands of the founder of a schismatic community.
210 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Women's Commission (letter), Gillian Gonzalez
Equally puzzling given the Holy Fathers clear and definitive teaching on womens ordination and the subsequent statement by the Vatican that this teaching is irrevocable was the comment of Mrs Hawkes that the issue of womens ordination was not on the Commissions current agenda.
211 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
Especially in the theological schools which have a large enrolment of women students Jesuit faculty members are reluctant to bring up the topic of priestly ordination.
212 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Groome commented: Those who hope for a systemic overhaul of priestly ministry know that when celibacy is taken off the table the same surely follows for womens ordination.
213 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The Sacred Chrism is consecrated to anoint the newly-baptised to seal with the Holy Spirit those who receive the Sacrament of Confirmation to anoint the hands of priests at their ordination and the heads of bishops at their consecration.
214 - Jun 2002 - Neocatechumenal Way setting up its second Australian seminary, Richard Egan
After ordination priests can be assigned to diocesan work sent to another diocese which is short of priests or released for work as itinerant catechists promoting the Neocatechumenal Way.
215 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Nicene Creed, Ken Bayliss
The Apostles Creed as Mr Nyman states always had the I form and was traditionally said at baptism and the ordination of a priest.
216 - Mar 2002 - North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories, Zenit News Service
If youve got people fussing over the ordination of women thats not very encouraging.
217 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
Six years after his ordination he published an edition of the New Testament which while based on Challoners English Version had been improved by emendations deriving from his years of special study.
218 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
That some left within four years of ordination adds to this tragic figure and gives ground to the belief that the nature of formation was a contributing factor.
219 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
It also included the ordination of Consolata Missionary Father Joseph Otieno of Nairobis Kahawa West parish.
220 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Our offices have received from several countries signs of courses that are being planned or underway directly or indirectly aimed at the diaconal ordination of women.
221 - Oct 2001 - Can US bishops enforce Papal teaching on Catholic universities?, Zenit News Service
In 1997 the group issued a paper expressing serious doubts about Church teachings against womens ordination and passed a resolution calling for continued debate on the topic.
222 - Oct 2001 - Anglican General Synod 2001 - moves towards women bishops delayed, Nigel Zimmermann
Having passed a clarification canon in 1992 to remove legal barriers to the ordination of women as priests 18 out of 23 dioceses have adopted the canon in their own territories - resulting in approximately 300 women priests in Australia.
223 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
Speaking at a Womens Dinner organised by Holy Family Parish Gowrie ACT on 23 February 2001 Mrs Geraldine Hawkes Chairperson of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women expressed her view on the ordination of women.
224 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
The demand for womens ordination highlighted by a recent conference in Dublin of Womens Ordination Worldwide with its New Age-style liturgies focuses attention on the broader issue of Catholic feminism.
225 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
What a great joy it is to go to the ordination of young men to the priesthood each year.
226 - Aug 2001 - Letters: BEC success stories (letter), Errol P. Duke
People such as Cathy Whewill in its co-ordination deserve much praise and future encouragement towards reaching out to those whose faith needs regeneration.
227 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
The ordination in March of Auxiliary Bishop Jos Gomez a 49-year-old Mexican priest of Opus Dei marked another turning point in the Archdioceses understanding of itself Archbishop Chaput says: We will begin to see ourselves as a diocese that is inherently bilingual inherently multicultural.
228 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Aid to the Church in Need Cardinal Ratzingers 50 years of priesthood Popes letter of congratulation Made public on 28 June was Pope John Pauls letter to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to congratulate him on the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
229 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
Welcome news Since his ordination to the priesthood in 1967 the Melbourne-born 60-year- old Dr Hart has served as a hospital chaplain assistant and parish priest in Melbourne parishes Prefect of Ceremonies for the Archdiocese Advocate and Notary of the Regional Matrimonial Tribunal and Executive Secretary of the National Liturgical Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (1975-1990).
230 - Jul 2001 - Archbishop Carnley: controversial Primate, Dr Ian Spry QC
So the ordination of women priests has occurred largely in view of a lack of strength on the part of some bishops who were cowed by feminists and in view of disruptive activities by other bishops (of whom Spong in the United States is a notable example).
231 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The E-Book addresses the question of ordination of women outlining the Churchs teaching on this subject in simple non-technical language.
232 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
A visit to Maredsous following ordination inspired him to consider seriously a Benedictine vocation.
233 - Jun 2001 - Anglican defence of Catholic inter-Communion ban, Fr Geoffrey Kirk
The official position about the ordination of women is a case in point.
234 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
We stand with the members of the Ordination of Catholic Women.
235 - Jun 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities: Adelaide's 'new model of church', Michael Gilchrist
Fr Marins foresaw a time in the future when each small community would have its own minister though the ordination process might differ.
236 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
Dr Pell it continued fits the mould of a church leader impatient with those who question papal authority and doctrine and unbendingly opposed to change on such issues as the place of gays in the Church womens ordination the celibacy of priests and contraception.
237 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
This is what is meant by Ordination and Priesthood.
238 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Sister Chittister is well-known for her writings and lectures critical of Church teachings on such topics as the ordination of womenand homosexuality.
239 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
ordination of women to the priesthood) and morals (e.
240 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
He has been a voice communicating the thought of the Church in a country where many Catholics including priests have questioned the Pontiffs position on topics like abortion birth control priestly celibacy and the ordination of women among others.
241 - Mar 2001 - Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ordinations
The ordinations which took place at the St John Vianney Church Doonside in the Parramatta Diocese were followed by Pontifical Mass according to the traditional Latin rites.
242 - Mar 2001 - How Archbishop Pell will implement Statement on Women in the Church
Following a meeting with representatives of WATAC (Women and the Australian Church) a group which has championed the cause of womens ordination the Archbishop issued the following response in January.
243 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Vocations (letter), Mrs Irena Nagy
The same people who precipitate a decline in vocations by their negative actions call for the ordination of married men and women to replace the vocations they have discouraged.
244 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
These acts made it an infallible declaration of the ordinary Magisterium that Gods plan for His Church does not include ordination of women: never has never will.
245 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
While the ordination of women aroused no interest there was concern that motherhood and parenting are still not promoted as a vocation within the Church.
246 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Women's ordination (letter), Dr Frank Mobbs
Would the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church give the Church greater appeal?
247 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
All being well following ordination he will serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Washington DC.
248 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Contact with Dom Roscindo Salvado soon after ordination was to prove seminal in the development of Fr Marmions monastic vocation.
249 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
All ministries are sacraments says Goosen and in future the possible pool of candidates for ordination will be broadened to include the married and women.
250 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
The Statement pledges to draw up policies of care to respond to the pain of people and groups of people within the Church who are struggling with the implications of Church teaching on the question of divorce and remarriage and to provide guidelines to assist in the pastoral care of those who are finding difficulty in understanding and accepting the Churchs teaching on the restriction of ordination to males as well as appropriate pastoral statements concerning Catholic teaching on such areas as sexuality marriage and family planning.
251 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
This position was reiterated by the Synod of Bishops in 1990: The Synod does not wish to leave any doubts in the mind of anyone regarding the Churchs firm will to maintain the law that demands perpetual and freely chosen celibacy for present and future candidates for priestly ordination in the Latin Rite.
252 - Jul 2000 - Australian bishops' response to 'Woman and Man' report, Michael Gilchrist
In 1994 following release of the Popes apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis which restated Church teaching on a male-only priesthood the ACLRI National Executive responded in a public letter: We write to express our dismay and disappointment at the recent Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope John Paul II specifically in so far as it prohibits further discussion of the ordination of women.
253 - Jun 2000 - New Primate: Anglican divisions intensify, Rev David Robarts
The loose structure characteristic of Anglicanism since the Reformation has come under increasing stress in recent years notably after the ordination of women clergy in 1992.
254 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Priestly Fraternity of St Peter First Australian ordination On 4 March 2000 Fr Lawrence Gresser FSSP became the first Australian to be ordained to the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP).
255 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
At this time Wojtyla was in Krakow preparing for his priestly ordination.
256 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The recently ordained bishops appear to have repented over the illegal ordination and Catholics of the official Church have protested at the way it took place.
257 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
How will the married clergyman support his family now that he must resign from his pulpit and lay aside his ordination?
258 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker
Add to this feminism womens rights to Ordination and abortion we are given a very distorted view of the influence of Christianity in our lives.
259 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
The source of his strength and his untiring self-giving came from his daily hour before the Blessed Sacrament which he never once missed from the day of his ordination to the priesthood.
260 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking particularly about the priestly ministry he reminded the bishops that the magisterium of the Church has made a decision that the ordination of women is impossible because it would be contrary to the mandate given by Jesus Christ and that the Church must obey the Lords will.
261 - Feb 2000 - Legionaries of Christ: new order for a new millennium, Peter Westmore
Formation Legionaries of Christ have a 12 year period of formation before ordination in which intellectual and personal formation are combined.
262 - Oct 1999 - Australian bishops' report on women: majority supports orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
2 percent variously supported Church teaching on womens ordination only 26.
263 - Sep 1999 - Religious Life: The crisis of women religious not confined to the United States, Sr Kathleen Dalton
The names of Sisters are prominent in organisations which challenge the Church on issues such as abortion rights womens ordination and internal authority structures of the Church.
264 - Aug 1999 - Catalyst for Renewal: or is it a catalyst for extinction?, Edward Thornton
Thus while Fr Gerard Gleeson upholds Church teaching that ordination to the priesthood is reserved to men in his paper The Future of Women in the Church delivered at the second Forum for the Future Fr Humphrey OLeary a Redemptorist posits the question of whether the Churchs teaching on women priests will change in the same way that its teaching on the use of the vernacular in the liturgy or ecumenism has changed.
265 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
This is underlined by the figures for ordinations.
266 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic Church in Russia Latest priestly ordinations The renewal of the Catholic Church in Russia after long years of Communist oppression gained strength with the ordination on 23 May of three new priests.
267 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Following their ordination as priests the first Marists consecrated themselves to Mary to work for the Church.
268 - Apr 1999 - Bishop Heaps' book: a mistaken view of the Catholic Church, Stuart Rowland
Should it be surprising that he takes issue with the Church for not welcoming back clergy who have left to marry or that he should hint at dissent on the question of the ordination of women?
269 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Priestly ordinations in Vietnam Communist Governments concession On 18 March 1999 the feast of St Joseph Archbishop John Baptist Pham Ming Man of Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City) ordained nine new priests in the cathedral dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace.
270 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
I also celebrated the 60th anniversary of my ordination.
271 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
It was not until 1993 three years after my ordination to the priesthood that I started taking serious steps towards a more radical and reformed religious life.
272 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
Following his ordination Fr Chaput taught theology and afterwards was appointed provincial superior of the Capuchins in the newly-created western province of the Order where much of his time was given over to administration.
273 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist
The former is at the heart of the crisis in the priesthood while the latter is dismissed by a British womens ordination activist Emma Winkley as just ridiculous.
274 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
We bubble with excitement over sacramental marriages and sacramental ordinations.
275 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
In particular it should be mentioned that she was opposed to the ordination of women.
276 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
This was a curious claim given the far greater impact on ecumenism of the Anglican Churchs ordination of women.
277 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
A more recent example was the doctrine that priestly ordination is reserved only to men .
278 - Jun 1998 - John Henry Newman on liturgical tradition, Cardinal John Henry Newman
Though to speak the truth our chief ordinances are to be found there as the Sacraments public worship the observance of the Lords-day ordination marriage and the like.
279 - Apr 1998 - Holy See rejects the latest ICEL submission
AD2000 REPORT The detailed criticisms of ICELs proposed revision of the ritual used for the ordination of bishops priests and deacons was revealed in a letter dated 20 September 1997 - only made public via the Internet earlier this year.
280 - Mar 1998 - Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity is binding on Catholics, Peter Westmore
Apostolic Pro-Nuncio speaking at the Thomas More Centre Summer School Archbishop Franco Brambilla the personal representative of the Holy Father in Australia said that the papally approved Instruction on certain questions regarding the collaboration of the non-ordained faithful in the ministry of priests and his earlier document Ordinatio Sacerdotalis regarding the impossibility of womens ordination were binding on Catholics.
281 - Nov 1997 - A young Catholic woman's defence of Church teachings, Anna Silvas
Consider the Popes letter about reserving priestly ordination to men alone.
282 - Oct 1997 - Editorial: Church authority: where do religious orders stand?
Given that three years previously the ACLRI Executive had released a letter challenging the central points of the Popes Apostolic Letter on priestly ordination Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (August 1994 AD2000 p.
283 - Sep 1997 - Editorial: Inclusive language: the Vatican sets the limits, Michael Gilchrist
The Vaticans two decisions - in relation to womens ordination and inclusive language - will ultimately prove decisive.
284 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
However Bernice Moore of WATAC (see July AD2000) and Phillipa ODowd and Barbara Campbell of Ordination for Catholic Women were more fortunate.
285 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
It added that the current my emphasis teaching on the non-ordination of women while seen principally as a theological issue is difficult to dissociate from a sociological context .
286 - Jul 1997 - Editorial: Unity is Strength: Division is Death
This statement was nominally in relation to womens ordination.
287 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist
Prospective recruits to the priesthood who study this document might well wonder about the point of continuing on their course to ordination when an alternative well paid and well-cared for lay priesthood seems to be materialising.
288 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
The current complement for all levels of the seminarys ordination program was 20 according to a Courier Mail report.
289 - Feb 1997 - 'Catholic Church Life Survey': 250,000 parishioners polled, Michael Gilchrist
all-male authorities ineligibility of women for ordination etc.
290 - Dec 1996 - Australian 'new church': Sr Roberta Hakendorf leads the charge, AD2000 Report
It is not surprising that Sr Hakendorf is leading the charge to set up a new church in Australia when one recalls her reported statement to an Adelaide conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women ten years ago (The Age 1 September 1986): As far as I see it there is no place for the ordained priesthood.
291 - Jul 1996 - Books: 'Critics on Trial - An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis', O'Connell, Fr John Parsons
In 1910 the Oath Against Modernism was imposed on candidates for ordination and remained in force until it was unwisely abolished by Paul VI in 1967.
292 - Jun 1996 - McBrien's 'Catholicism': what the US Bishops criticised
Contraception homosexuality and womens ordination are taken for granted as open questions with the official Church position on these seen as erroneous.
293 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
Perhaps too the reimposition of the oath against Modernism as a prerequisite for ordination as deacon priest or bishop would emphasise the need for a renewed faith in the Churchs infallible doctrinal tradition.
294 - Feb 1996 - Editorial: When - if ever - will the Church act to safeguard her authority?, B.A. Santamaria
Late in 1995 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the authority of the Holy Father behind it declared that the Popes 1994 Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis was a declaration of the infallible teaching of the Church in the matter of womens ordination.
295 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
Nor did Sr Foxs official role inhibit her from advocating womens ordination.
296 - Sep 1995 - Editorial: Catholic doctrines and moral teachings: the time for enforcement is overdue, B.A. Santamaria
The further sapping of what certainties remain is not unlikely granted the programs apparently initiated by two influential Catholic bodies the Australian Catholic Theological Association and the Catholic Biblical Association of Australia which have commissioned two reports on the question of womens ordination.
297 - Apr 1995 - Church of England General Synod member joins the Catholic Church, Fr Peter Geldard
Fr Geldard has been one of the most articulate opponents of womens ordination in his Church (which ultimately took place in November 1992).
298 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
Following the decision of the General Synod to authorise the ordination of women to the priesthood the Church Society sought a Judicial Review as to whether the Synod had exceeded its powers.
299 - Feb 1995 - Vatican says 'no' to NRSV translation - 'Inclusive language' setback, Michael Gilchrist
Given the remoteness of major ecumenical advances not least due to the introduction of womens ordination in a few non-Catholic Churches some ecumenists may need to clutch at inclusive straws.
300 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
It is obvious for instance that the Church has traditionally taught with great firmness and constancy the personal existence of the Devil the historical fall from grace of our first parents the historical contraction of original sin by generation the absolute immorality of contraception (and of other specific classes of sexual conduct which many of you want the Church to permit) the impossibility of womens ordination and the disciples true seeing touching and eating with the risen Christ.
301 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
The Liturgy of the Hours is part of a mans commitment at ordination to the diaconate - it should be part of training for Holy Orders.
302 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
Such sections are those which discuss contraception and the ordination of women.
303 - Aug 1994 - How dissent operates in the Church, Bishop George Pell
This is true of priestly ordination.
304 - Aug 1994 - Bishop Spong at Australian Catholic University - Why?, Michael Gilchrist
Bishop John Shelby Spong ordains active homosexuals has been in the forefront of womens ordination campaigns and writes prolifically against the foundations of Christianity.
305 - Aug 1994 - Religious orders, associations refuse to accept 'definitive' Papal teaching
In his Apostolic Letter of 22 May Pope John Paul II declared that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the faithful.
306 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
In his authoritative letter on the question of the ordination of women the Pope gave a clear and binding decision that to countenance such a proposal was beyond the Churchs competence; that the decision in question was binding on all Catholics; and that the finality of the decision precluded further public discussion.
307 - Jul 1994 - The revolt of the Religious Orders - Cardinal Ratzinger's statement
The events which followed the issue of the Popes letter on the Ordination of Women (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis) on 22 May have had the effect of bringing into the open the internal schism which has existed in the Church for the past twenty years.
308 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
The present conflict within the Catholic Church is thus not about female ordination.
309 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
Above all the authors of declarations against celibacy against papal and episcopal teaching on doctrine the instigators of revolts and those who try to coerce unacceptable changes in monasteries and seminaries are to be excluded from ordination.
310 - Mar 1994 - Books: 'Commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church', Michael Gilchrist
female ordination and priestly celibacy .
311 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Hence the Church is now free to ordain whom it wills (a conclusion not dissociated from the current feminist campaign for the ordination of women).
312 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
Various issues rose within the context of Womens Ordination to called Priesthood dress of women priests Blessings Holy Family Eucharist Communion Services marginalised various groups within the Church .
313 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
Thus both priesthood and ordination will gradually merge into an undifferentiated mish-mash.
314 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
Ordination of Women Archbishop Weakland calls himself a feminist and as well as approving inclusive language and altar girls - still forbidden by the Holy See - in his churches he favours (Brisbane Courier Mail August 1 1991) the ordination of women as a solution to the priest shortage worldwide and leading to a more intelligent and compassionate Church.
315 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Given the pattern in the American Evangelical Church with the loss of one-third of its membership since the 1970s a similar advent of womens ordination in Australian Anglicanism will simply hasten the downward trend.
316 - Jul 1992 - Editorial: The principle for which Thomas More died, B.A. Santamaria
Some bishops while apparently supporting the Popes repeated directions on the matter of the ordination of women are obviously attempting to prepare the way for its realisation.
317 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Perhaps more Australian bishops might also consider the precedent set by at least one American bishop Bishop John Myers of Peoria Illinois who during 1991 invited Dr Hellwig to explain her previously published views on womens ordination before permitting her to speak in his diocese.
318 - Apr 1992 - Whence Ecumenism? The Vatican and ARCIC, Michael Davies
Just when Anglicanism in Australia faces likely fragmentation over pressures for womens ordination - ending any hopes of an early reunion with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy - the official Vatican response to the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) indicates that other fundamental doctrinal differences between the Churches remain unresolved.
319 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
The campaign for the ordination of women opens up issues far wider than that of women priests.
320 - Dec 1991 - New Zealand: 'transforming the Church from within', John Kennedy OBE
The link with womens ordination comes out in the use of such phrases in the article as preaching and Eucharist are closely linked.
321 - Dec 1991 - Editorial: Can the internal schism be solved?, B.A. Santamaria
The internal issue within the Anglican Communion has come to a head on the issue of the ordination of women but as Archdeacon George Austin of York stated (November AD2000) the doctrinal division goes beyond this question.
322 - Nov 1991 - Editorial: When television told the truth, B.A. Santamaria
When the Archdeacon of York recently called on the Anglican Church to recognise that it was hopelessly split the London weekly The Economist speaking from a secularist viewpoint commented: A Church should not huddle together vaunting its spirit of compromise when one-third of its members have a quite different view of order and authority from the other two-thirds as is the case over womens ordination.
323 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
He could do this most effectively before ordination by insisting that only those of the highest quality should be permitted to continue their seminary studies.
324 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
After the womens ordination issue the state of our indigenous people (to use the jargon) looms large.
325 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
I think that some of those who constitute pro-Choice Catholics and the Womens Ordination movement are growing older.
326 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
But the inadequate output of newly ordained priests - some of whom are now leaving the active ministry soon after ordination - is a serious situation which needs to be seriously addressed.
327 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
When the synod was held it did the predictable things expected of it and then it moved into the forbidden areas coming out strongly for womens ordination and an end to priestly celibacy.
328 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
Agenda Despite numerous Papal statements and documents on the nature and importance of the ordained priesthood assembly/synod materials speculate about a married clergy Pastoral Teams of the non- ordained to run priestless parishes the use of ex-priests and even the question of womens ordination.
329 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
Thanks to the power of the grace received at Ordination - if the doctrines once communicated to us retain their pristine validity - a man becomes something more than himself.
330 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
Pressed to the point however it is difficult to reject the conclusion of the Anglican Bishop of London Dr Graham Leonard (who has led the fight against the ordination of women in the Anglican Church both in Britain and the United States).