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Women's Ordination & the All-Male Priesthood

The Duality of Covenant Authority in the Catholic Church

THE GENESIS OF HUMAN SEXUAL COMPLEMENTARITY

Sr. Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, O.P.

May 2022

The message of life’s rebirth came first to woman, and each time it is woman’s answer that determines the destiny of mankind.

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Spiritus Domini: How the Exception Became the Rule

THE SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCES OF SMALL CHANGES

Gerard T. Mundy

June 2021

The Pope's decision to allow women into two “minor orders” of the Church shows how significant change can be instituted incrementally.

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A “Deeper Understanding” of the Priesthood?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

November 2019

No temporal or civilizational events can override the sacramental necessity of the Catholic priesthood’s being reserved to men.

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The Last Rhetorical Refuge of an Intellectual Scoundrel
June 2016

A writer in the outrageously compares the Church's refusal to ordain women with a Muslim mob's murder of a young woman.

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Intimate Friends of Jesus Christ

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

June 2014

The priest's sublime fatherhood closely images "the virginal generation of the Eternal Son" by the Father and "the virginal generation of the Church" by the Son.

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Feminists Are Wrong About Women's Ordination

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

November 2011

The reservation of the priesthood to men is not a matter of "discipline" or Church law that may be rescinded but is "theologically certain" and a "doctrine of faith."

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It Can't Happen Here, Can It?
July-August 2010

Could the Catholic Church end up sliding down the same slippery slope as the Anglican Communion? Yes, if certain groups get their way.

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The Hammer Drops
June 2008

Fortitude, one of the four cardinal virtues, is sorely lacking among the current leaders of the Catholic Church in the U.S.

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The Emasculate and Effeminate Priesthood
February 2008

A manly man wants to do manly things -- he doesn't secretly wish to be a nursing mother. An effeminate man does!

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Archbishop Burke Has Courage
January 2008

The Archbishop of St. Louis isn't turning his head away from the fact that two Catholic women have had themselves 'ordained' priestesses.

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The Dutch Are At It Again
December 2007

The Dominicans in the Netherlands are agitating to open the priesthood to homosexuals, women, and married men.

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A New Catholic Community
October 2006

"My name is Victoria Rue. And I am a Roman Catholic womanpriest." So began Mass and a 'new Catholic Community.'

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A Mockery of Catholicism

ABSOLUTELY NULL & UTTERLY VOID

Theresa Marie Moreau

January 2006

Aboard a tour boat, a group of sandal-clad, middle-aged women thought they were being "ordained" into the Holy Roman Catholic priesthood.

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The Secret Weapon in the War on Terrorism: Priestesses!
April 2002

"Dualistic (and sexist) thinking about masculine and feminine has led to a ruthlessly competitive marketplace."

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Priestesses Would Be Unfeminist?
February 2002

There are many good reasons why the Church does not ordain women to the priesthood. There are also some screwy reasons floating around.

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Understanding the All-Male Priesthood

THE INTEGRATED WISDOM OF CATHOLIC SEXUAL TEACHING

Janet Holl Madigan

May 2000

The Church holds that the priest, standing in persona Christi, cannot supply the right sacramental material without being male, since Christ Himself was male.

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Why Was Christ a Male & Why Did He Ordain Only Men?

ON NATURE & THE ECONOMY OF GRACE

Raymond T. Gawronski

January/February 1996

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