Update on women's ordination. (Canada).In our March 2002 issue (p. 31), we reported on the so-called ordination ordination: see ministry; orders, holy. of Mary Ramerman Mary Ramerman is one of the founders of the Spiritus Christi sect in Rochester, New York. Ramerman, a Californian and convert to Catholicism who wished to become a Catholic priest, was encouraged by Fr. in Rochester, N.Y., by a California bishop of the Old Catholic Church. The Tablet of London reports that, as a result of the claims of Austrian and German Catholic women about a forthcoming ordination there, the Old Catholic Church has stated categorically that it does not allow its bishops to perform ordinations for other denominations. The report states that Peter Hingman from California is a "wandering Wandering See also Adventurousness, Bohemianism, Journey, Quest. Ahasuerus German name for the Wandering Jew. [Ger. Lit. bishop" of the Ecumenical Old Catholic community. He has nothing to do with the Union of Utrecht
The Union of Utrecht (Dutch: Unie van Utrecht Church (whose ordinations of men used to be recognized as valid by the Catholic Church). |
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