Canon 1024
One of the ecclesial obstacles to women’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church is Canon 1024 which reserves ordination to baptized males. This issue is discussed in detail on the website, www.womenpriests.org
Papal Documents:
(Full texts are available on www.womenpriests.org)
Ad Tuendam Fidem, ‘To Defend the Faith’ 1998
Humanae Vitae, ‘On Human Life’ 1968
Inter Insigniores, ‘On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone’ 1976,
Mulieries Dignitatem, ‘On the Dignity and Vocation of Women on the Occasion of the Marian Year’ 1988
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, ‘On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone’ 1994
Responsum ad Dubium, 1995
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