Sentences with phrase «ordination of women»

As for ordination of women, no less than 74 per cent of the Roman Catholic respondents (and 75 per cent of everybody) are in favor.

No brainer: Guess what they're working on a sequel for... Not a surprise: Tanzania to oppose ordination of women and gay bishops in Anglican church.

His Jerusalem - based Shalom Hartman Institute has engaged in such controversial work as the Orthodox ordination of women rabbis, a practice that most Orthodox Jews reject.

The reluctance of many churches and church bodies to accept ordination of women is a case in point.

Bert must protest against «the social injustices and sinful exclusions perpetrated by a patriarchal church that refuses to consider ordination of women and marriage for same - sex couples.»

When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the two church leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican Church.

If you find yourself not believing in confession, birth control, the non ordination of women, the acceptance of gays, or other major teachings, you should ask yourself if you belong there?

Some think that women LEMs are a step toward the priestly ordination of women.

In 2007, the Vatican issued a decree saying that the attempted ordination of women would result in the automatic excommunication for the woman and the priest trying to ordain her.

New York Times: Women as Priests Reformers within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests.

Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee issued among the earliest calls for withdrawing the draft because it did not go far enough — presumably because it did not call for the ordination of women to the priesthood.

«The ordination of women on all levels of clerical orders,» it wrote, «is a clear deviation from Christian practice,» as is «the emergence of a new moral - code concerning human sexuality and especially homosexual relations.»

Nothing in the rejection of modernity tells us how we ought to view the ecumenical movement or the ordination of women.

Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree about church teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of women, and the nature of the papacy, among other things.

When the commission agreed that Scripture provided no directive concerning the ordination of women, the representatives from Latin America and Africa and other conservatives interpreted this as prohibiting a change of policy, while representatives, and especially theologians, from North America, Europe and Australasia interpreted this as allowing innovation.

It was fear of disunity that prompted the rejection of the ordination of women.

Similarly, while Braaten welcomed the ordination of women, he stood adamantly against feminist theology, particularly the insistence on eliminating all masculine references to God.

The Church of England has published proposals that could lead to approval of the ordination of women... More

He cited the ordination of women and more open views on divorce as precedents.

We weren't demythologizing the Bible or playing down the blood or the cross of Jesus or the judgment of God (as Mark's logic would suggest these are interrelated with the ordination of women as pastors).

Ordination of women is essentially a question of baptismal theology.

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.

This is an issue through the whole of culture, and certainly in the church where the ordination of women us in some areas still vigorously debated.37 In the theological school, the writer has faced innumerable times the task of advising an able, educated and dedicated young woman concerning her professional life.

In fact, for nearly forty years the traditional elements in the Church of England have delayed progress on unity and the ordination of women and other matters.

(For more information: A History of Women's Ordination at the Jewish Virtual Library is decent, though a bit dated; it doesn't speak, for example, of happenings in the contemporary Orthodox world such as the ordination of women under the new title Maharat.

The magisterium appeals to these authorities as grounds for repudiating divorce, abortion, homosexual relations, and the ordination of women to the priesthood.

In line with the tradition, he defended clerical celibacy, ruled out contraception, and firmly opposed the ordination of women.

Why does Rome appoint as bishops only those who have never publicly questioned Humanae vitae, the celibacy of priests and the ordination of women?

I confess that prior to Vatican II, I would have viewed the ordination of women as forever impossible.

They say they do not intend to intervene in doctrinal matters; they are not, for instance, urging the ordination of women or the popular election of bishops.

Why does a bishop speak on the ordination of women only after retirement?

Another example is the ordination of women.

It's facing serious strains over the ordination of women bishops and gay priests, and the Catholic Church has reached out to disaffected Anglicans, raising the possibility that conservatives could leave en masse.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity of the sacrament.

During a later press conference, however, the pope said he was surprised and angered by media headlines announcing that he was «opening the door» to the ordination of women deacons.

A subtheme of the Rose book is that some bishops actually want to intensify the vocations crisis in order to promote the abandonment of the celibacy rule and the ordination of women.

At issue were the familiar questions: ordination of women and the Book of Common Prayer.

Since the sponsoring group advocated the ordination of women even to the lowest ranks of the patriarchal hierarchy, it refused to publish the paper.