June 1, 2012

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Women Priests

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Gunning For The Nuns

Michele Somerville | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Roman Catholic Church, Vatican, Catholic Church, Gender and Religion, Catholic Women, Female Clergy, Catholic Nuns, Women Priests, Religion News

The Vatican is losing the war of public opinion in the pews. It needs to flex its muscles. It needs to create fresh fear.

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Pope Slams Priests Who Question Celibacy, Ordination Of Women

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 04.05.2012

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they...

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Female Jet Pilot? Sure. Preacher? No.

Rev. Susan Sparks | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Ordination of Women, Christianity, Women's Empowerment, Women in the Church, Southern Baptist Women, Women Clergy, Southern Baptist Convention, Souther Baptist Women, Female Priests, Women Priests, Role of Christian Women, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, Female Clergy, Gender and Religion, Religion News

I remember telling a vacation bible school teacher that "I was trying to decide between being a minister or a jet pilot." She smiled and said, "Well, girls can be jet pilots, but God only calls men to preach."

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Catholics Push To Allow Women Priests

Posted 09.24.2011

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At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Maryknolls, Rev. Edward Dougherty, Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, Roy Bourgeois, Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, Athena Film Festival, Easter, Catholic Church, Women Priests, Catholic Sex Abuse, Catholic Women Priests, Women's Ordination, Religion News

Mary's gift to the world is brutally dismissed and diminished by a Church that has declared the fight for her voice, her equality and her empowerment to be a most grave crime.

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Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other!

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate thei...

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Last Episcopal Holdout Ordains Female Priest

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women Bishop, Episcopal Diocese, Episcopalian Priests, Women Episcopal Bishop, Episcopal Church, Women Priests, Women Episcopal Church, Ordained Women Church, Religion News

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Women have been ordained as priests in all 110 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, after the last holdout, ...

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Vatican: Ordination Of Women A 'Grave Crime'

AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.07.2011

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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disab...

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Women Take On Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Women's Rights, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Catholic Women, Pope Benedict XVI, Women Priests, Religion News

As more and more cases of child abuse and cover-up emerge and the church escalates actions aimed at controlling women -- and not just Catholic women -- the all-male hierarchy finds itself in the midst of an unprecedented crisis.

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Interview With Toni Tortorilla, Female Catholic Priest

Religion News Service | By Nancy Haught | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) It's been three years since Toni Tortorilla was ordained in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, and the Vatican's recent de...

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Female Priests: As Sinful as Pedophiles?

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Vatican, Women's Ordination, Child Abuse Scandal, Christianity, Excommunication, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Female Priests, Women Priests, Religion News

More than half of the Catholics in the world want to see female priests ordained. An overwhelming majority of us wish to see the male bishops who facilitated hundreds of rapes of children held accountable.

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U.S. Bishops Defend Inclusion Of Women's Ordination In Church Crimes List

Religion News Service | By Daniel Burke and Richard Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Daniel Burke and Richard Allen Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops on Thursday (July 15) defended the Vatican's decision ...

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Sex and the City of God, Part 1: The Catholic Church's Treatment of Women

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

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The pimping of children and the readiness to sacrifice them on the altar of Vatican public relations, the fear and distrust of women, and the compulsory celibacy for priests -- are all interrelated.

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Protesters Campaign For Women's Ordination At Vatican

Religion News Service | By Luigi Sandri | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Luigi Sandri Religion News Service ROME (RNS/ENInews) A group of women demonstrated in Rome's St Peter's Square on Tuesday (June 8), saying they w...

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Uppity Women And The Church

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clergy Women, Female Pastors, Women Clergy, Woman Priests, Women Ministers, Female Ministers, Women Pastors, Female Priests, Woman Ministers, Women Priests, Women in Christianity, Woman Clergy, Religion, Woman Pastors, Mimi Walker, Christianity, Female Clergy, Religion News

Why do women persist in the religious life, or as members of congregations, when the church is so often a test of our resilience, or when our opinions are seen as defiance?

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Marriage Is Not An Evil Thing

Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Priests, History Marriage, Women Priests, Episcopal Church, Christianity, Christian History, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Women and Marriage, Religion, Healthy Living News

I was strangely comforted to remember that, for its first thousand years, the Christian church was ambivalent about the institution of marriage.

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The "Generosity" of Pope Benedict XVI

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women and same-sex marriage.

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Memo to Rome: Some of Us Like the Reformation

Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal-Protestant, Pope Benedict, Women Priests, Catholic Church, Ecumenical, Gay Priests, Ecumenism, Episcopal Church, Homophobia, Anglicans, Rowan Williams, Religion, World News

The Anglicans that the Vatican probably comes into the most (perhaps sole) contact with seem to wish they were Roman Catholic.

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Voices Carry -- Lay Catholics, Priests Challenge Bishops on Abortion, Ordination

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 11.17.2011

The Catholic Church's commitment to excommunicating anyone who expresses support for the ordination of women is another manifestation of the church's continued demonization of women.

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Father Pfleger's Raging Sexism No Problem for Cardinal George

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Ordination, Trinity United Church of Christ, Women Priests, Hillary Clinton, Fr. Michael Pfleger, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George, Catholic, Politics News

George never said one word about the misogyny that came through in Pfleger's cartoon-like caricature of a brilliant woman respected worldwide who has fought a long, hard battle.

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