Women Priests?

Excommunicated: The women fighting to be priests - BBC

A group who are taking part in unauthorised ordination services to become priests, in an act of defiance against the Roman Catholic Church.

What is it that keeps women from being priests? - Catholic Answers

The reason that women are not to be ordained is because they are not men. Sounds politically incorrect, doesn't it? But the fact is that God created men to ...

Can women be priests? - Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research

The Fathers of the Church take for granted that women should not be ordained priests. They generally base this on women's presumed inferiority and sinful state.

The women fighting to be priests - BBC World Service Documentaries

There are over a billion Catholics around the world. Women have always played a significant role in the life of the Church - but have been ...

Catholic women lead push for female priests - CBS News

Lisa Ling explores a growing movement of women defying Catholic Church tradition by becoming priests. These leaders hope to pave the way for ...

Statement on the Ordination of Women | USCCB

Recently the question of ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate has become an increasingly pressing issue in our churches, but the state of the ...

Fact sheet on Catholic Women's Ordination

More than 180 women have been ordained as priests, deacons or bishops by the group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) and the Association of Roman ...

Women Priests Secretly Ordained In The Shadow Of The Vatican

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the ...

Opinion | Women as Priests - The New York Times

Women as Priests · REFORMERS within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests. · Despite the official ...

Female 'Priests' Secretly Celebrating Catholic Masses - YouTube

An underground Catholic movement started in 2002 with the secret “ordination” of seven women in Germany. The movement has grown to 250 women ...

Women priests secretly ordained in the shadow of the Vatican - RFI

On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the ...

Are there any female priests in America? - Quora

Yes. For many years. Pictured are five of the “Philadelphia Eleven” first female priests in The Episcopal Church.

Catholic women: The fight for priesthood - Reporters - France 24

In October 2023, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, women were allowed to participate in and vote at the Synod of ...

About Us - Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests

The Roman Catholic Women Priests (RCWP) initiative is a renewal movement within the Roman Catholic Church. Our goal is to achieve full equality for all within ...

Top Reasons Why Women Can't Be Priests - MyCatholicSource.com

The constant, uninterrupted tradition of the Church - following the example of Christ and earlier Jewish tradition - excludes women from the priesthood.

Priesthood - Blood, Gender and Power in Christianity and Judaism

In the Catholic and Orthodox Christian traditions, women are not permitted to be ordained as priests of the church.

History | Roman Catholic Women Priests

Roman Catholic Womenpriests are at the forefront of a model of service that offers the People of God a renewed priestly ministry in vibrant grassroots ...

Women and the priesthood - Philosopher Kings

Women cannot become priests in the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Churches. However, they can be ordained within many (though not all) Protestant ...

All About Priests: Women Priests, Married Priests, and Flawed Priests

Mary [Mother of God] was far holier than Peter. Mary Magdalene showed up to the foot of the Cross. Guess who wasn't at the foot of the Cross—Peter, Thomas, ...

Women Priests and the Image of God - CBE International

Preaching, teaching, pastoring, leading, prophesying women demonstrate that women are capable and effective in those roles in Lewis's view! Nonetheless, he goes ...