Supported by developments
in other Christian Churches

Background music?


The Second Vatican Council teaches
that the Catholic Church must learn
from other Christian Churches

“All who have been justified by faith in baptism are incorporated into Christ. They are rightly called Christians. With good reason they are accepted as brothers and sisters by the children of the Catholic Church.” (Ecumenism § 3)

“Many of the most significant elements and gifts which together go to build up and give life to the Church itself, can exist outside the Catholic Church.” (Ecumenism § 3)

“Christ summons the Church, as she walks her pilgrim way, to continual reformation, a reformation of which she always has need.” (Ecumenism § 5)

God is also at work in other Churches! In other Christian Churches women are now being given access to all the ordained ministries.

It applies not only to evangelical churches, but to some mainstream churches close to Catholic tradition, such as the Old Catholics, the Methodists, the Anglicans & Episcopalians.
See examples here.

Admitting women to the ministries is the outcome of a long process of prayer and study by our Christian brothers and sisters.
Their truly Christian motivation and their genuine search for establishing what Jesus really wanted can be read in the publication of many classic works.


  The example of the other Christian Churches does not prove the correctness of ordaining women in an absolute fashion.

But it is a serious indication that this is the path the Holy Spirit urges also on the Catholic Church.
 

See a video clip

 

Go to the next step?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
baptised empowered liberated ordained affirmed supported called



Follow @JohnWijngaards
You are in a simplified, ‘key point presentation’ mode.
To switch to academic mode,
click here!

Do you wish to translate this page via google translator?

You (i) first need to copy the URL of this page (from top bar of your browser), (ii) click on this link, (iii) paste the URL into the google converter. Then choose your language and click "translate".

Please, support our campaign
for women priests

 
Join our Women Priests' Mailing List
for occasional newsletters:
Email:
Name:
Surname:
City:
Country:
 
An email will be immediately sent to you
requesting your confirmation.



Do you wish to translate this page via google translator?

You (i) first need to copy the URL of this page (from top bar of your browser), (ii) click on this link, (iii) paste the URL into the google converter. Then choose your language and click "translate".

Please, support our campaign
for women priests

 
Join our Women Priests' Mailing List
for occasional newsletters:
Email:
Name:
Surname:
City:
Country:
 
An email will be immediately sent to you
requesting your confirmation.