Strange bedfellows. (News: signs of the times).DUBLIN -- Women's ordination advocate Colm Holmes doesn't often agree with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, but the two have at least one opinion in common. Both think the "ordinations" of seven women in Germany in June are illicit in the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. . While some American Catholics were celebrating the news that seven Austrian and German women had been ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. by a bishop they believed had true apostolic succession apostolic succession, in Christian theology, the doctrine asserting that the chosen successors of the apostles enjoyed through God's grace the same authority, power, and responsibility as was conferred upon the apostles by Jesus. , Holmes and others noted that Bishop Romulo Baschi of Argentina had been excommunicated in the 1960s. "The option has been there for some time for women to leave the Roman Catholic Church and join another Christian church that does ordain ORDAIN. To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law. 2. In the constitution of the United States, the preamble. declares that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. women," says Holmes, a founder of BASIC, which advocates for the ordination of women In general religious use, ordination is the process by which one is consecrated (set apart for the undivided administration of various religious rites). The ordination of women in Ireland. "But I believe we must stay in the Roman Catholic Church and bring about change in our church." Cardinal Ratzinger went even further. He issued an official canonical warning that the women will be excommunicated if they don't admit the ceremony was invalid and express repentance. The women have refused. His deadline was July 22--the feast day of Mary Magdalene, considered by some a patron saint for increased roles for women in the church. |
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