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My resignation:
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen... Enter the struggle which I share with so many others in the Church ...!

My favourite theme:
Get to know what makes me tick...!

I am John Wijngaards, a priest, theologian and writer.

I worked as a missionary in India, and it was during that time (1975) that, almost by accident, I first discovered the Church’s need to reassess its attitude to the ordination of women.

The authorities in Rome kept increasing their claims against women priests, imposing their opinion on theologians with ever higher sanctions. In 1998 I resigned from the active priestly ministry on account of my conflict of conscience.

My life story:
Meet the protagonist, the drama, the plot... Read this at your own risk!

My publications:
Rummage on the shelf of what I have produced. Theology, sacred scripture, spirituality, fiction, film stories... Where will I land up next?

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Other documents in this section
Reasons that made me resign		Answers to questions regarding my resignation		The Question of the Priestly Ordination of Women
Articles I wrote on Church Reform	‘Family Planning’, The New Leader (India) 1972/1973	‘Do Jesus’ Words on Divorce (Lk. 16:18) Admit of no Exception?’, Jeevadhara vol 4 (1975) pp. 399-411.	‘Authentic Christian Worship in India’, The Outlook, 15, no 5 (1977) pp. 134-138	‘Towards an adult faith’, The Tablet 5 January 1980, pp. 7 - 10	‘That Dutch Church!’, The Tablet 25 February 1984 , pp. 181 - 183
	‘Celibacy should not be a Requirement’, The Catholic Herald (London) 7th August 1987	‘God and our New Selves’, Religioni e Sette del Mondo 4 (1998) pp. 172 - 193	My Press Statement, 17 September 1998.	‘My Stand for Women Priests’, NewWomen, NewChurch, vol. 23 (Spring 2000) p. 3
Supporting texts		‘Doomed love affair led priest to suicide’, Times of London, November 4, 1993	‘The Law of Celibacy must Change’ Journal of the Catholic Women’s Network, no 54, March 1998, pp. 6-7	‘Deficiencies of the Church’s present leadership’, by Bishop Reinhold Stecher, May 1998	Why don’t you write to me?

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