Review article
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.s1.1
The Issue of the Dignity and Priestly Ordination of Women in the Doctrine of the Third Millennium Popes
Emanuel Petrov
orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-7803
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Marijo Volarević
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
After the Second Vatican Council, the issue of allowing women to become priests is becoming more and more actual in the Church. The increasingly loud pressure of lay feminist circles outside the Church, but also within it, demands the affirmation of women in the priestly ordinance, in accordance with the dignity of every human being and against any discrimination. The popes of the third millennium have to provide an adequate response to such demands. In their statements and speeches, the very significant role and undeniable dignity of women in the Church is recognized. Speaking very clearly on this topic in several places, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis advocate the equal dignity and rights of every human being, man and woman, which is based on man’s natural sacramentality. In this direction, this paper will try to present in three steps the views of the three popes of the third millennium, what are the similarities and peculiarities in their reflections related to the ordination of women and their human dignity.
Keywords
ordination of women; discrimination; dignity; mission; John Paul II; Benedict XVI; Francis
Hrčak ID:
288154
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Publication date:
16.1.2023.
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