Sentences with phrase «ordination conference»

Auxiliary Bishop Francis Murphy of Baltimore and Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minnesota, «mingled» with the Women's Ordination Conference rally outside the hotel during the bishops» meeting, and Archbishop Rembert Weakland, to show his solidarity with the WOC, requested the women's prayers.

• At its twentieth anniversary convention in Arlington, Va., the Women's Ordination Conference was still able to draw about a thousand participants, despite the 1994 statement by Rome that the Church is not authorized and therefore can not ordain women to the priesthood.

And so it is that after twenty years the Women's Ordination Conference has, as they say, come a long way.

Together with my response at the first Women's Ordination Conference in 1975 they also caused professional - political difficulties after my return as a tenured professor from my sabbatical at Union.

Only later did I become involved with Roman Catholic groups such as the Women's Ordination Conference or the National Assembly of Religious Women, which contacted me because of my position at Notre Dame.

In order to address these questions I advocated the theological notion of «partial identification» and «spiritual resistance» at the Second Roman Catholic Women's Ordination Conference in 1978.

Francis did say that women need to have a deeper role in the church, but his dismissal of women's ordination was «heartbreaking,» said Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordination of women.

Not exact matches

Here they have insisted that the national church restrict the freedom of annual conferences with respect to ordination and the freedom of local congregations with respect to the kinds of services they are allowed to hold.

A top contender to head the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected allegations he allowed the ordination of a priest who went on to abuse children.

I had become sufficiently reestablished in my faith that I asked for ordination in the North Georgia UMC conference.

In The United Methodist Church, until recently, the act of ordination and the benefits of security in conference membership were synonymous.

There was no unanimity at the conference with regard to the ordination of women and the pyramidal pattern of the structure of some churches.

Ever since the 1980 General Conference declined to take a definitive position on the ordination and appointment of «self - avowed practicing homosexuals,» the 1984 General Conference, which met last spring in Baltimore, was targeted by several groups within the church to accomplish just that purpose.

The Baltimore - Washington Annual Conference recommended a married lesbian for commissioning as a provisional deacon in February, noting that it was «not of one mind on the issue of ordination of LGBTQ individuals» with the denomination.