Catholic Word of the Day: ORDINATION OF WOMEN, 06-18-10

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ORDINATION OF WOMEN

A speculative question that has become highly controversial since the Second Vatican Council, as to whether women could be ordained to the Catholic priesthood and episcopacy. In 1975, Pope Paul VI dclared women's ineligibility for the ministerial priesthood (Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 67, 265). And in the following year the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirmed the fact and gave the reasons why this practice has a normative character. "In fact of conferring priestly ordination only on men, it is a question of unbroken tradition throughout the history of the Chruch, universal in the East and in the West, and alert to suppress abuses immediately." Having stated the fact, the Holy See went on to clarify this teaching. Since the priesthood is a sacrament, it is a sign that is not only effective but should be intelligible to the faithful: "When Christ's role in the Eucharist is to be expressed sacramentally, there would not be this 'natural resemblance' which must exist between Christ and His minister if the ruole of Christ were not taken by a man" (October 15, 1976). On his visit to the United States, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed "the Church's traditional decision to call men to the priesthood, and not to call women" (October 4, 1979).

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As a woman, I am happy to serve in other areas of my church. I do NOT need to be a priest!

So, how did other denominations come to the conclusion that women could be ordained?

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Mass Salutation	Old Law	Nazarene
Subjectivism	Papal Coronation	Apostle
Subdiaconate	Mala Fide	Spiritual Espousals
Baptistery	Didache (Teaching of the twelve Apostles)	Aglipayanism
Tabernacle	Council of Trullo	Mortuarium
Repairing Scandal	Auriesville	New Law
Perfectae Caritatis	Violence	Tertian
Rule	Corpus Christi	Czestochowa
Solicitude	Evil Desire	Hexameron
Quadragesimo Anno	Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem	Latin Architecture
Apocalypse	Possessive Instinct	Alb
Cruelty to Animals	Cities of Refuge	Irregularity
Ordination of Women

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Most Christian demonimations have a different conception of “ordination” than we have in the sacrament of Holy Orders, and a different understanding of the role of an ordained minister.

[HighlyOpinionated]

If the Catholic Church EVER decides to ordain women [which I'm sure they won't], I'll start learning Greek.

And if the Greek Orthodox Church ordains women . . . I'll start learning Hebrew and become an Orthodox Jewess.

But as I said, as long as there's a Pope in Rome, the Catholic Church will not ordain women. Jesus didn't ordain his Blessed Mother, Mary, or any of the women who assisted Him and His disciples. Now matter how a protest[ant] tries to skew the Scriptures, women were never intended to be ordained. We have a much higher calling.

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Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Mass Salutation	Old Law	Nazarene
Subjectivism	Papal Coronation	Apostle
Subdiaconate	Mala Fide	Spiritual Espousal
Baptistery	Didache (teachings of the 12 Apostles)	Aglipayanism
Tabernacle	Council of Trullo	Mortuarium
Repairing Scandal	Auriesville	New Law
Perfectae Caritatis	Violence	Tertian
Rule	Corpus Christi	Czestochowa
Solicitude	Evil Desire	Hexameron
Quadragesimo Anno	Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem	Latin Architecture
Apocalypse	Possesive Instinct	Alb
Cruelty to Animals	Cities of Refuge	Irregularity
Ordination of Women