SEVEN STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE WOMEN’S ORDINATION

1. Recognise that the SOURCE for women’s openness to ordination lies not in emancipation but in baptism.
2. Understand Rome’s arguments for its ban on women priests and know how to refute them.
3. Be familiar with the theological reasons for ordaining women.
4. Create opportunities to educate people for change.
5. Make women visible in church.
6. Support integrity in the Church and voices of protest.
7. Jesus Christs wants also women in the priesthood, not just men. Proclaim it!

Two related useful diagrams can be found here:

Arguments of church authorities

 

Arguments of modern theologians

 

Read also my latest book:

John Wijngaards, WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN CATHOLIC COLLEGE. Women in the priesthood and the mind of Christ, Acadian House Publishing, Lafayette USA 2020.