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“Tagespost" exclusive: Rome Opens the ParachuteDie Tagespost November 24, 2023Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin informs the German bishops that the ordination of priests reserved for men and the Church's teaching on homosexuality are non-negotiable - a German special path is therefore The German bishops have received a clear message from the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin that the Vatican is not considering negotiating the letter "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis", in which Pope John Paul II confirmed the exclusion of women from ordination to the priesthood in 1994, or the Church's teaching on homosexuality in upcoming talks with a delegation of...

Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's doctrine that women are not able to receive holy orders. The pontiff discussed the impossibility of female ordination in a Spanish-language book published in June, titled "El Pastor: Desafíos, razones y reflexiones sobre su pontificado" – or in English, "The Shepherd: Struggles, Reasons, and Thoughts on His Papacy,"

Letter from Rome: The old order is passing awayThe Church's implosion accelerates as cardinals call for major doctrinal changes and a former pope tries to save a legacy. There was more turbulence in Roman Catholicism this past week -- at least on the Old Continent.A number of recent events verified -- to those who are willing to open their eyes and face reality -- that the Roman Church's ongoing implosion is picking up pace.Here are just a few things that happened when many people were probably not paying attention:- Two cardinals close to Pope Francis publicly called for radical changes...

A Bosnian cardinal has said that the “exotic ideas” of Germany’s “Synodal Way” are alien to a Church that survived communism. Cardinal Vinko Puljić was asked in a May 6 interview with the German Maria 1.0 initiative whether Catholics in his Archdiocese of Sarajevo were engaged with issues such as women’s ordination and the abolition of clerical celibacy. He said: “A Church that has weathered the challenge of communism does not have such exotic ideas. Indeed, such attitudes offend and astonish our believers. We cannot understand a Church in which sacrifice is a foreign word and there is a Jesus...

Q: A coworker was talking loudly at work about an article she’d read, endorsing the ordination of women as deacons, and she was all for it. It didn’t sound right to me, though, but I couldn’t put my finger on why not. Would it be possible for the Church to ordain female deacons? If not, what’s the argument against it? –Katie

Details, from the New York Times: The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, who refused to renounce his increasingly public campaign to see women ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church, has been notified of his dismissal by his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.A letter to Father Bourgeois, signed by the superior general and the general secretary of the Maryknoll order in the United States, said the dismissal was necessary because of his “defiant stance” in opposition to church teaching.“Your numerous public statements and appearances in support of the women’s priests movement continues to create in the minds of many...

Editor: It's just a matter of time? Assignments since 1972 already no longer required ordination. Vatican City (kath.net/KAP) Benedict XVI is evidently planning to allow women to act as lectors at services. This was confirmed by the new prefect of the Vatican Bishops Congregation, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, this Thursday afternoon. Ouellet outlined this in the context of the post-synodal document "Verbum Domini" by Pope Benedict XVI., which dealt with "The word of God in life and in the mission of the Church". In the 220 page document on the structure of the recommendations of the Bishops Synod 2008 dealt with...

Editor: He had previously this week offered to pay out settlements to compensate victims. He had also, as Novice Master, spoken of the pernicious homosexual culture in seminaries. And he maintains: Appointments in the Church Hierarchy are reminiscent almost of "corruption" -- Almost half of Catholics are today continuously closed off from the Sacraments. The new Provincial of the German Jesuits, P. Stefan Kiechle SJ, spoke this week for the abolition of celibacy. Kiechle spoke this Wednesday in the auspices of the "Cardinal-Höffner-Circle" Catholic CDU-member for the release of married men for the priesthood and for the consideration also of...

However, all that changed on August 9th when Fr. Bourgeois chose to become a “concelebrant” and homilist at the attempted ordination to the priesthood of Janice Sevre-Duszynska. The attempted “ordination” occurred at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, Ky. Now, Fr. Bourgeois has decided to engage in a new crusade, one which involves public and direct defiance of the Holy See and a repudiation of the unbroken teaching of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church concerning sacred ordination. According to a letter which Fr. Bourgeois released to the Press, he has received a letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine...

Laity empowered by a supposed priest shortage. The argument is flawed. The proportion of priests to people has detiorated a bit in the last forty years but nothing like as much as the proponents of lay involvement would have you believe.

Leadership: Amen To Women http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/20/katharine-schori-episcopalian-lead_cz_ch_0321pink.html http://tinyurl.com/ynvrms Cecile S. Holmes, PINK 03.21.07, 6:00 AM ET Katharine Jefferts Schori -- oceanographer, instrument-rated pilot and Episcopal bishop -- remembers the evening in 2000 when it seemed she might be reaching the zenith of her short ecclesiastical career. After spending the day in a diocesan committee meeting along Oregon's southern coast, she had returned to her home in Corvallis, Ore. Her daughter was away at college, her husband out for the evening with friends. She was sitting at home alone when the call came, she recalls. "They said, 'You have been elected bishop. Will...

From time to time (most recently last week), the topic of whether or not Scripture supports women pastoring and leading churches comes up. The topic revolves around 1 Timothy 2:8-15, and two schools of thought come up - one giving consent for women to serve as senior pastors, and one not allowing women to pastor. The Vineyard, A Community of Churches (formerly known as the Association of Vineyard Churches) now sides with the former school of thought. In a letter sent to Vineyard pastors, National Director Berten Waggoner said that the AVC had decided to ordain women as pastors, while...

Division looms for Episcopal Churchhttp://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=2216 http://tinyurl.com/kr9gt July 25, 2006 Signs of a full-blown split between the Episcopal Church and most of the worldwide Anglican Communion appeared only days after the U.S. church's General Convention refused to renounce the election of gay bishops. The 2.2-million-member Episcopal Church would be reduced to nonvoting "associate" status in a proposed two-tiered membership policy for the 77-million-member communion that was announced June 27 in London. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said those national churches that sign a covenant affirming Anglicanism's traditional stance on homosexuality could be full members of the communion, while other churches would...

A Schismatic Canterbury Talehttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/14/opinion/main1805855.shtml http://tinyurl.com/r9z5a (The American Prospect) This column was written by Adele M. Stan July 16, 2006 It was with great joy that religious members of the progressive movement received, late last month, news of the election of Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to the top leadership position in the U.S. Episcopal Church. For one, the fact of the bishop’s gender heralded an important first for Episcopalians, whose rites and rituals cling closely to those of the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the inclusive position taken by Jefferts Schori with regard to the full participation of gays and lesbians in...

Worldwide Anglican church facing split over gay bishop http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2245849,00.html http://tinyurl.com/opnva By Ruth Gledhill Times Online June 27, 2006 The Archbishop of Canterbury has outlined proposals that are expected to lead to the exclusion of The Episcopal Church of the United States from the Anglican Church as a consequence of consecrating a gay bishop. The US branch of Anglicanism faces losing its status of full membership of the Anglican Church in the wake of its consecration of the openly gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, an act which has propelled the worldwide church to the brink of schism. The...

Bishop James Mote, 84, led split over Episcopal women's ordination http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1148200753107070.xml&coll=2 http://tinyurl.com/kdvv7 Sunday, May 21, 2006 From wire reports Indianapolis- Bishop James Mote, who made national headlines in 1977 when he led his Denver congregation out of the Episcopal Church after it began ordaining women, died April 29. He was 84 and had been in a nursing home in Indianapolis, his hometown. Mote's battle with his former bishop, William Frey, leader of the Colorado Episcopal diocese, went on for months because Frey didn't want the congregation to leave. When St. Mary's Church, which Mote headed, met to vote on secession...

By Catherine Lagrange LYON, France (Reuters) - A married French Catholic woman was ordained a priest on Saturday, an unlawful step condemned by one of the country's top Roman Catholic clerics. Genevieve Beney, a 56-year-old physical education teacher with a theology degree, took her vows on a boat on the Saone river near this eastern French city before some 60 Catholic activists who support female ordination. The ceremony drew condemnation from the Catholic Church, which reserves the priesthood for men. "This act ... does not fulfil any of the conditions required by the Catholic Church, and such a ceremony unequivocally...

Allowing his church to be used for a service marking the annual World Day of Prayer for Women's Ordination has gotten a Milwaukee priest in hot water with the archbishop and attracted attention elsewhere in the country.Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan was going to "address it with those concerned," said archdiocesan spokesman Jerry Topczewski, who indicated that Dolan was not pleased. But people at the national Women's Ordination Conference were elated. The March 25 prayer service at St. Matthias Church was the first one known to have taken place in a Catholic church in the United States in the seven years...

Document on Women Deaconesses Nears a Final Vote VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 27, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The International Theological Commission is now analyzing the final draft of a document that addresses the issue of the ordination of women deaconesses. A Vatican Press Office statement said the document will be voted on next week, when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith holds its annual plenary assembly. The congregation coordinates the work of the theological commission. The Vatican congregation commissioned the document. ZENIT learned that the subcommittee which wrote the document was presided over by Henrique de Noronha Galvâo, a member of...

SCHISMATIC CLERIC TO ATTEMPT "ORDINATION" OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN LIMA, Aug 20. 02 (CWNews.com) -- The renegade Argentinean cleric who attempted the "ordination" of six Catholic women in Austria earlier this summer will soon perform a similar ceremony for four Latin American women, a Peruvian magazine has reported.Caretas, a weekly edited in Lima, cited unnamed sources close to Romulo Antonio Braschi, a defrocked Argentinean Catholic priest and founder of the "Catholic-Apostolic Charismatic Church of Christ the King," saying that four Latin American women "are getting ready to be ordained on 2003 in Germany, with the support of some dissident bishops...