{"id":14949,"date":"2016-07-15T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:52:01","slug":"can-catholic-women-become-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/2016\/07\/can-catholic-women-become-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Catholic women become priests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14960\" src=\"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cutie-chasuble-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"cutie-chasuble\" width=\"136\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cutie-chasuble-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cutie-chasuble.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/>This question has been around the Church for a very long time.\u00a0 There are even some women that have gone so far as to defy the authority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, receiving ordination from outside Bishops of another country.\u00a0 I think we can all agree that some women can make extremely good Pastors of our Parishes.\u00a0 They know how to care for individuals spiritually and humanly.\u00a0 Some feel the calling to this leadership role, but can they be Priests?\u00a0 Would this help in the shortage of Ordained Priests some ask.\u00a0 So then what is the answer to such a controversial question?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GfGJs-iFtS8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Catholic News Service<br \/>\n<strong>Why not women priests?<br \/>\nThe papal theologian explains<br \/>\n<\/strong>By Francis X. Rocca <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/\"><strong>Catholic News Service<\/strong><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>1.31.2013 12:00 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>Further References:<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Education Resource Center<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWhy Can&#8217;t Women Be Priests? \u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>JASON EVERT<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholiceducation.org\/en\/religion-and-philosophy\/apologetics\/why-can-t-women-be-priests.html\">http:\/\/www.catholiceducation.org\/en\/religion-and-philosophy\/apologetics\/why-can-t-women-be-priests.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inter Insigniores<br \/>\n<em>Declaration On the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood<br \/>\n<\/em>October 15, 1976<br \/>\nby Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cin.org\/users\/james\/files\/inter.htm\">http:\/\/www.cin.org\/users\/james\/files\/inter.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Ordination: It&#8217;s Infallible<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Pope John Paul II May 22, 1994 Apostolic Letter on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cin.org\/users\/james\/files\/w-ordination.htm\">http:\/\/www.cin.org\/users\/james\/files\/w-ordination.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question has been around the Church for a very long time.\u00a0 There are even some women that have gone so far as to defy the authority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, receiving ordination from outside Bishops of another country.\u00a0 I think we can all agree that some women can make extremely&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/2016\/07\/can-catholic-women-become-priests\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Catholic women become priests?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmatthias-milw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}