Sentences with phrase «denied ordination»
Rome is wrong to deny ordination to women, but by the same token it was wrong centuries ago about the nature of priesthood; Rome should have rendered a different judgment in the case of contraception, but there is no authentic apostolic authority to make such a judgment in the first place.
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On women's issues, it would be difficult to deny that there has been significant engagement in some parts of the church with questions of women's ordination, inclusive language, leadership patterns, theological imagery and reproductive self - control.
John Wesley had asserted his rights as a presbyter to ordain men for a, ministry in America, thereby denying the necessity of ordination by bishops alone.