Posted on 02/06/2022 4:57:15 PM PST by marshmallow
Participants in the German Catholic Church’s “Synodal Way” voted on Friday in favor of a text calling for the ordination of women priests.
CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, reported that the text was passed by 174 votes in favor, 30 against, and 6 abstentions on Feb. 4 during a plenary session of the Synodal Way, a controversial multi-year process bringing together the country’s bishops and lay people.
The vote will be seen as a direct challenge to the Vatican, which has underlined that the Church has no power to ordain women as priests.
The document, entitled “Women in Ministries and Offices in the Church,” said: “It is not the participation of women in all Church ministries and offices that requires justification, but the exclusion of women from sacramental office.”
The vote came on the second day of a meeting of the Synodal Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the Synodal Way, in Frankfurt, southwestern Germany.
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Hah, trying to turn the Catholic Church into Protestant lite.
(Not pushing either group. Just saying turning the Catholics into just another of N Christian groups - where N is a large number - doesn’t appear to have much of a future.)
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