{"id":3431,"date":"2021-04-25T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2022-01-30T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:02:10","slug":"bishop-emil-a-wcela-makes-the-case-for-expanding-the-diaconate-to-include-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discerningdeacons.org\/es\/bishop-emil-a-wcela-makes-the-case-for-expanding-the-diaconate-to-include-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Emil A. Wcela makes the case for expanding the diaconate to include women (America Media)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Can women receive sacred orders? Let us consult several authoritative sources. Canon 1024 of the Code of Canon Law states, \u201cA baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly.\u201d In 1994 Pope John Paul II said, \u201cI declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church\u2019s faithful.\u201d And the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has weighed in on the issue more than once. A statement in 1995 read, \u201cThis teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written word of God and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the tradition of the Church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal magisterium.\u201d And in 2010 the doctrinal congregation stated, \u201cboth the one who attempts to confer sacred ordination on a woman, and she who attempts to receive sacred ordination incur a\u00a0latae sententiae<\/em>\u00a0[automatic] excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.\u201d And so the issue is settled.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Or is it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Can women receive sacred orders? Let us consult several authoritative sources. Canon 1024 of the Code of Canon Law states, \u201cA baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly.\u201d In 1994 Pope John Paul II said, \u201cI declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"witness-tag":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t