There is no valid reason why women should be excluded from the ordained ministries!

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Date August 18, 2002
Name Jackie Clackson
Email
City London
Country UK
Comments This website is a wonderful service to so many of us! Please keep up the good work!



Date August 18, 2002
Name Anne Miller
Email 106601.2731@compuserve.com
City London
Country UK
Comments The website is attractively set out and a wonderful resource for the on-going discussion on the subject of women priests in the Catholic Church. Congratulations for your excellent website. It will give courage to many women and men today.



Date August 19, 2002
Name Chris Martin
Email
City Bristol
Country UK
Comments I have found this very interesting and it makes me think about all the issues of the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. I agree.



Date August 19, 2002
Name Marjorie G. Jones
Email herstory@optonline.net
City Bronxville, NY
Country USA
Comments This is a superb website for those of us interested in women's history & the history of the Church.



Date August 19, 2002
Name Sister Theresia Saers
Email th.saers@planet.nl
City Barendrecht
Country The Netherlands
Comments Since I was asked to contribute to the site I have learned so much more about the matter. I got encouragement from all over the world in a way I would never have thought possible. I hope the balance will slowly shift in the direction the organisers are working for. Actually I am sending a brochure I have been writing, Bespraecte swijgster op bezoek, to some of our Bishops. Theresia Saers



Date August 19, 2002
Name Margaret
Email margo@snip.net
City Glassboro
Country usa
Comments I landed upon your page looking for the "Creation of Eve". After reading your Web Site's information, I was yet again glad that I left the Catholic Church and it's forever "Dark Aged" beliefs and ideas. I firmly believe that WOMEN should be ordained, as this seemed to confuse me as a child. We are condemned as mere servants in the Catholic Church; this too, has always confused me. How can we begin to teach our daughters to be all they can be if we still have limitations on what a woman can and can not do? Until a woman is ordained and the Catholic rules are realistic, I will never return to a church that still practices segregation and the many other issues I have with the Catholic Church.



Date August 19, 2002
Name Mark Cranny
Email mark_cranny@dialog.com.au
City Brisbane
Country Australia
Comments well done - keep up the good work!



Date August 20, 2002
Name Diana Lee
Email mollymick@aol.com
City Naugatuck
Country USA
Comments I was very excited to hear about the couragous decision of the seven women who elected to follow their vocation and be ordained Catholic priests in the Church. It is through their courage and wisdom that the door has finally been opened for the international discussion of womens' rightful place in the Church. No longer can the patriarchial Church ignore us!



Date August 20, 2002
Name Matthew
Email
City Grinnell, IA
Country USA
Comments Although I respect your right to your own opinion, I cannot support your cause. The Supreme Shepherd of our Church, Pope John Paul II, has definitively ruled that women are not suitable for ordination as Catholic priests. This is not at all because there is something inherently "inferior," "unworthy," about women, or anything like that. God has given the vocation of maternity to women, a vocation which no man could ever hope to aspire to. In the same manner, God has given the vocation of Holy Orders to males. Rather than focusing on what we "wish" could be, I suggest it is far more productive to the work of God on Earth to focus instead on what definitively is. So much could be accomplished for the Kingdom if we would just stop our mostly-petty squabbling and focus on God instead. Dominus vobiscum.



Date August 20, 2002
Name Pedro Salinas
Email pedrosalinas@mixmail.com
City Lima
Country Peru
Comments Creo que ninguna de sus razones justifica la ordenación de mujeres. Ninguna, sólo son meras suposiciones. Esto de que las mujeres sean sacerdotes es parecido a la idea del algún hombre al que se le ocurra ser madre. Igual de absurdo. Me parece bien que hayan excomulgado a las mujeres ordenadas. Tan mal está esto de la ordenación de mujeres que ningún obispo quiso hacerlo, tuvieron que recurrir a uno que no es católico del todp



Date August 21, 2002
Name Joe Olivio
Email joe@tabernacletypology.com
City Powell
Country USA
Comments I am not Catholic. I am a man. I WILL back you up 100% because woman DO HAVE THE POWER AND THE WILL to stop these evil priests that molest kids. I WILL BACK YOU UP ON MY TV PROGRAM IF YOU WISH. The very first person that proclaimed the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ was a woman, SO WOMEN OF THE lORD, DO WHAT HE HAS TOLD YOU TO DO.



Date August 21, 2002
Name Ivelisse Colón Nevárez
Email saudade@ahora.net
City Bayamón
Country Puerto Rico
Comments Since the first time I found this website more than a year ago and began helping translating texts to Spanish, is my opinion that this is one of the best sites about women's ordination ever. There's lot of information about every aspect of this fascinating theme. I recommend this site to anyone interested in women priests, even if you don't believe in it and I suggest to recommend it to your parish priest and bishop and use it for your theological studies. Finally, recommend it to any woman who feel called for priesthood.



Date August 22, 2002
Name Jesus Vera
Email jesusverapons@hotmail.com
City Ensenada
Country México
Comments Dios les bendiga. Soy teólogo y pastor de una iglesia bautista. En medio de la pluralidad reoligiosa debemos comenzar a dar a la mujer el lugar que le corresponde. Jesús así lo hizo, ellas fueron pieza importante en la vida y ministerio de Jesús, es difícil imaginar la vida de Jesús sin las mujeres, ellas fueron la primeros testigos de la resurrección. Gloria a Dios por cada mujer. Oraré para que Dios obre y las mujeres tambien puedan ser sacerdotes en su iglesia. Gracias por esta página. En Cristo



Date August 23, 2002
Name Thomas Wystrach
Email webmaster@ikvu.de
City Bonn
Country Germany
Comments Great website! Vielen Dank für diesen hervorragenden Überblick. Die Website ist eine Fundgrube für die Diskussion über die Frauenordination in der römisch-katholischen Kirche. Für deutschsprachige BesucherInnen, die an Infos zur "Priesterinnenweihe" vom 29.6.2002 interessiert sind, empfehle ich außerdem unser IKvu-SPECIAL "Frauenordination und Priesterinnenweihe" unter der Adresse http://www.ikvu.de/frauenordination/



Date August 23, 2002
Name Doreen Wyatt
Email doreen@lmwint.freeserve.co.uk
City Bristol
Country England
Comments Congratulations on your wonderful website. I am currently researching the relationship between gender and authority, ministry and tradition in the Catholic Church and have found it to be an invaluable resource. Many, many thanks.



Date August 24, 2002
Name Pauline Small
Email pgsmall@ozemail.com.au
City Adelaide
Country Australia
Comments This is an amazing site! As a woman who was drawn to priesthood, I have struggled with the issue of remaining in the church versus my authenticity and integrity as a person. I do not find myself able to stay and be complicit in my own oppression, but I find it a grief to be outside too. Thank you for all the work you put into the cause of justice.



Date August 24, 2002
Name Mike
Email
City Odessa
Country USA
Comments Obediences is the key in following the Will of God, and since the Holy Father is the vicar of Christ on earth and he has declared that the issue of ordaining women is dead, why do you people insist on going against obedience? Remember our frist parents disobeyed the Lord and paradise was lost. Jesus elected 12 men to lead his Church, and one He named Peter meaning "rock" his mother Mary was always with them and yet He did not choose her to be a priest, had He wanted women ordained Our Blessed Mother would have been the first one that He would of ordained. Let's leave God's Church alone and really focus on the important issuses at hand. Remember the gates of #$@%! shall not prevail against God's Church.



Date August 27, 2002
Name Eric Justice
Email ejustice@hotmail.com
City Paris
Country France
Comments J'ai lu avec curiosité et aussi avec un frisson d'angoisse votre site. Je me sens le devoir de dénoncer, en toute charité, tous les arguments sociologisants dont vous vous faites l'écho. On ne peut appliquer à l'Eglise les analyses féministes : c'est un contresens grave, et ça révèle une incompréhension profonde de la doctrine catholique. Ne soyez pas aigris ! Vivez votre foi en Jésus Christ dans l'humilité, la charité et la prière ! En un mot : convertissez-vous... In Christo, Eric



Date August 27, 2002
Name Joyce Josephson
Email
City Reading
Country USA
Comments The ordination of Women is a critical issue for me, in this time and place. I live just north of Boston, the epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Our church is deeply wounded and bleeding profusely. The all male, mandatory celibate mentality of the church's hierachy has been the cause of this scandal,in my opinion. We need to allow gifted women and men, celibate and married, to serve at Christ's altar. This is my constant prayer, for the Holy Spirit to speak to the church of God's desire for a more inclusive priesthood. Thank you for your excellent work. I have learned so much, and and looking forward to reading John W.'s book, "Unmasking the Cokoo's Egg" which I ordered from Amazon.com.



Date August 28, 2002
Name Edgar A. Lozano
Email gitano7b@yahoo.com
City North Hills
Country USA
Comments I'm so happy to see that there is brave people, both men and women, who are willing to give this cause a strong voice. There is enough historical evidence that shows that shows that God at least is not opposed to grant holly orders to women. There is an argument that says that women has been given a maternal vocation no man can aspire to. This is true, however, if we take a closer and honest look at the role of a mother in today;s society, we'll see that being a mother or living up to that moternal vocation that women have recieved goes beyond the traditional guidelines that woman have been slaves of for centuries. Yo be a mother today is to be a leader, a provider, a teacher, a priest. I pray to the Lord Jesus that our leaders in the church may be able to put their guard down and let the Holly Spirit move and act freely in our universal Church.



Date August 30, 2002
Name The Rev. Holly Boardman (United Methodist)
Email halehawk@gte.net
City Orlando
Country Florida
Comments Thanks for an interesting website. May the Holy Spirit sustain you on your journey.



Date September 2, 2002
Name James Sullivan
Email sulli@hendon100.fsnet.co.uk
City London
Country England
Comments I fully support the ordination of women priests, and I would only be to pleased to attend a church that had a women parish priest.Lets hope the day will come soon when we will see a change in the vatican which will bring about many changes which are needed.



Date September 2, 2002
Name Gertraud Schmidt
Email ggg@st-anton.at
City St.Anton am Arlberg/Tirol
Country Austria/Europe
Comments Jesus, I thank you for this homepage for your priest John for every word of holy guests.



Date September 3, 2002
Name Wanda
Email
City Edmonton
Country canada
Comments I support your site. It would be wonderful if women can become Priests! God Bless, Wanda.



Date September 3, 2002
Name The Revd Mary Leigh
Email
City Leek
Country UK
Comments Ordained Anglican Women Priests long for the time when their Roman Catholic sisters can also have their vocations recognised.




We need to wake up our Church leaders!