Cardinal Hollerich says he’s ‘not sure’ whether women’s ordination should be ‘completely excluded’
July 19, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: In a recent book on women and ministry for which Pope Francis wrote the preface, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, wrote that the ordination of women in the Catholic Church could harm ecumenical relations with the Orthodox churches.
“Do these doubts mean the ordination of women should be completely excluded?” asked the cardinal, the relator-general of the Synod on synodality. “I am not sure.”
The book includes contributions by Cardinal Hollerich, Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston, and the three women who addressed the Pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals on the topic in February.
Sister Linda Pocher, a professor in Rome and a contributor to the anthology, wrote that “the calling of the 12 apostles cannot be equated with the institution of priestly or episcopal orders as they are understood today” and that “papal rejections of admitting women to ordained ministry cannot be used as a justification for maintaining the practice,” according to Catholic News Service’s summary of her contribution.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 23, 2024 2:00 AM ET USA
As usual for political feminists, Pocher pushes the party line of the modern academy that Christ and the early Church were constrained by their patriarchal "Jewishness" to denigrate the public role of women in polite society and liturgical practice. Christ, as God, knew recognized no such cobstraints, as evidenced by His recorded
