Tag Archives: women’s ordination

NCFishwrap’s editorial for women’s ordination: creepy ineducability

Posted on 25 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

National catholic Reporter, Fishwrap, has an editorial today in favor of the ordination of women.
Whom did they consult as their expert?  The deposed Bishop of Toowoomba, William Morris. And for their theological “insights”?  You decide.  I have my own ideas.
Their … Continue reading →

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FLASH: Fr. Z agrees with Bp. Morris and NCR… yes and no.

Posted on 10 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I may be in close agreement with Bp. Morris and NCR on a matter of great importance.
From the National catholic Fishwrap comes another defense of lately-removed Australian Bishop William Morris, quondam of the Diocese of Toowoomba. His Excellency is the … Continue reading →

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How it all goes wrong. So very wrong. So sad.

Posted on 8 April 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

What happens when you go wrong:
From the pen of Roy Bourgeois, M.M.
Rev. Edward Dougherty, M.M., Superior General
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
P.O. Box 303 Maryknoll, NY 10545
April 8, 2011
Dear Father Dougherty and General Council,
Maryknoll has been my community, my family, for 44 … Continue reading →

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NCFishwrap, Sr. Fiedler, Fr. Bourgeois… what could go wrong?

Posted on 8 April 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The National Catholic Fishwrap continues in it open dissent against the Church’s formally and irrevocably defined doctrine concerning ordinary of males only, as in only men, exclusively men, no women, not even wymyn.
We have seen Sr. Maureen Fiedler before.  She … Continue reading →

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Norma Jean Coon: reconciled

Posted on 27 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Norma Jean Coon, who had been involved with some wymyn who think they can be pryssssts, Norma Jean Coon, who renounced her involvement with the same women, abjured her pretend ordination as a deacon, and sought reconciliation.
She has an update … Continue reading →

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Fishwrap finally reports on courageous Norma Jean Coon

Posted on 16 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Remember Norma Jean Coon?  She is the courageous woman who repudiated her simulated “ordination” in the wymynpryst thingie and has cut all her ties with the wymin, as she works with the CDF for the lifting of the excommunication she … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS HIGHEST KUDOS to Norma Jean Coon!

Posted on 23 February 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Norma Jean Coon, A woman who did the “woman priest” thingie and simulated ordination to the diaconate has had a change of mind and heart.  She has a webpage where she explains herself.
My emphases and comments.  This starts off a … Continue reading →

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Westminster Cathedral: hordes, throngs, mobs demanding ordination of women

Posted on 16 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Mulier Fortis has an amusing note in her post about the ordination of the former Anglican bishops.
I was slightly amused to see this photo on Facebook. The hordes of supporters calling for the Holy Father to ordain women…

…almost outnumbered by … Continue reading →

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A different take on “active participation”

Posted on 31 August 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I hear there was recently another attempted ordination of a wymyn in Arizona.

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Australia: Holy See tells Catholic diocese not to host Anglican ordination of women

Posted on 29 November 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yes, you read that correctly.
I picked up this story from an Australian source theage.com.au.
I get the sense that, in the past, the local Catholic diocese in Victoria had allowed Anglicans to have ordinations in a
My emphases and comments.
Vatican ban … Continue reading →

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