“It’s treated as one of the most serious crimes in the Church.” Meet the women fighting to be priests. The Vatican has never allowed women to be ordained as priests, but there's a growing movement to overturn this ban. Over 200 women have chosen to take part in secret ordination services, despite knowing they will be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. | bbcglobalwomen

Following my last post about a woman parading herself as a priest and celebrating the Holy Eucharist, a lot of questions have been asked one of them being: Are their women who are priest or Does the Catholic Church ordain women as priest. In line with this, the answer is emphatically No, the Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests. According to the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, only baptized men can receive the sacrament of Holy Orders, which includes becoming a deaco

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