Category: Women and the Priesthood
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The Ecclesiastical Institution and the Exclusion of Woman from Service
“What men deem good is good!!” 1. Introduction The problem of the ordination of woman was not a doctrinal problem nor a theological one but an intellectual one, for while relics of saints (martyresses/martyrs) are placed to consecrate the table of the Church upon which the divine sacrifice is offered, her ordination to the clerical ranks…
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The Impurity of Woman as a Justification for Exclusion
(Is the man pure at all times in the priesthood?) Lazarus Abboud The ordination of a deaconess in Africa stirred wide clamor in Orthodox circles, for this formidable step was like a bomb that blew up all stagnation and shook religious thought. I will not speak about the deaconess; I shall go to another angle,…
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The Priesthood of Women: Does the Church Have the Right to Change Canonically and Theologically?
Therefore, from the standpoint of canonical church law, the Church is progressive, because it is able to add to it, to omit from it, or to make in it whatever modification and alteration suits the needs of every time and place. If the Church takes a decision to ordain women within the orders of the…