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After a female evangelical minister described how clerics from other faiths attended her ordination and blessed her, the King said: “We’re all trying to find the same path to the divine – sometimes by different routes.”
Anglicans have never understood that ordination involves some imagined ontological change with the laying on of hands to suddenly make an ordinary Christian into an Old Testament-like sacrificing priest for the people of God.
Described as ‘profound and real,’ the speech characterized calls for women’s ordination as a form of clericalism and as a distraction from what Catholic women want and need.
Disgusted with the Sangha order at age 19 (i.e., before higher ordination), he disrobed, and became a layman again, reverting to his birth name Ariyaratne.
Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2023/01/rectifying-history-to-vandalize-it.html
"First, they ignored the Bible on matters of divorce, contraception, the ordination of women, and, more recently, homosexuality and marriage," Robinson told CP via email.
Following the ordination, the new priests immediately began serving their assigned parishes, where they will shepherd the faithful while celebrating Mass and the sacraments as parochial vicars.
Source: https://essexnewsdaily.com/headlne-news/deacons-from-south-orange-belleville-ordained
He acknowledges that the technique of ‘spiritual conversation’ adopted at the round tables at this synod ‘helps to turn down the temperature on controversial questions’ such as women’s ordination, but that ‘it doesn’t deliver theological clarity’.
Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/fr-frank-brennans-homily-solemnity-of-christ-the-king-2023/
He continued: “In the ordination service priests are told that they should ‘resist evil, support the weak, defend the poor, and intercede for all in need’.
Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/insulate-britain-civil-resistance-protests-climate-crisis/
He ministered in the northeast Texas diocese since its founding in 1987 and led the diocese since his ordination as bishop in 2012.
In the pope’s responses, he signaled a cautious opening to the blessing of same-sex unions and a seemingly firm “no” to women’s ordination.
Novices participate in the ordination ceremony, marking a profound commitment to spiritual practice as they honour the legacy of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Source: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/300-novices-ordained-in-reverent-tribute-to-king-rama-ix-447102
Since then, differences between Catholics and Anglicans have become greater, due to the ordination of women.
So Pelosi’s advocacy of female ordination is highly charged.
Source: https://www.gopusa.com/nancy-pelosis-theology-and-her-politics/
The episcopal ordination Mass of is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Cathedral in downtown St. Cloud.
Source: https://wjon.com/ordination-mass-vespers-scheduled-for-new-st-cloud-bishop/
The ordination services were led by the Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge or the Bishop of Dudley, Martin Gorick.
Source: https://worcesterobserver.co.uk/news/six-start-out-on-a-new-career-path-in-clergy-in-worcester/
Yeshivat Hadar is ordaining its first rabbis this year, and half of the dozen advanced scholars who will receive (ordination) are women.
Source: https://forward.com/opinion/548451/this-shavuot-we-are-in-the-golden-age-of-female-torah-study/