Now is the Time:A Celebration of Women's Call to a Renewed Priesthood in the Catholic Church
Women's Ordination Worldwide - 1st International Conference
| Now is the Time: A Celebration of Women's Call to a Renewed Priesthood in the Catholic Church Women's Ordination Worldwide - 1st International Conference |
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If wide knowledge of the Catholic community matters, here it is. Ordained a priest in 1959, John Wijngaards graduated at the Biblical Institute and gained a doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome, worked as a missionary in India for 14 years, and held world-wide responsibilities as the Vicar general of the Mill Hill Missionaries from 1976 - 1982. Then, as the director of Housetop, he designed courses for adult faith formation that are used in all continents. Over the decades he has also become one of the most outspoken campaigners for women priests in the Catholic Church. In 1998 he resigned from his priestly ministry in protest against Rome virtually excommunicating proponents of women priests in Ad Tuendam Fidem.
John maintains that Rome's arguments against the ordination of women are untenable from a scriptural and theological point of view. As a scholar he painstakingly dismantles the traditional objections in his books and through his renowned web site www.womenpriests.org. At the same time he believes that it is not so much an academic discussion as the groundswell of a new awareness in the church that will turn the tide. The "Catholic sense" will win through, as it did when slavery and other abuses were finally disowned by the Church.
John is a born communicator. Apart from his scholarly publications, he has 15 popular theological and spiritual books to his name, among them the best selling
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