Meanings of ordain women in English

His comments follow the failed vote to ordain women bishops.

He suggests that the Catholic Church will one day ordain women: she will not.

Since Jesus did not ordain women, the Church cannot even consider such a possibility.

A 1994 letter by Pope John Paul said the church did not have the authority to ordain women.

In 1994 Pope John Paul issued Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which said the Church had no authority to ordain women.

She was an active Mormon, even a former missionary, but then she founded a campaign to ordain women.

The Catholic church teaches that it cannot ordain women because Jesus willingly chose only men as his apostles.

Since being appointed, Chartres has declined to ordain women, in a concession to traditionalists in his deeply divided diocese.

Wider and more chaotic disagreements would shake the communion when the Americans started to ordain women in the 1970s.

Towards the end of her book she writes about child abuse in the Catholic church, which she joined after the Anglicans decided to ordain women.

Irish Catholic priests have described as "a major disappointment" comments by Pope Francis indicating the church has no current plans to ordain women deacons.

When he visited the United States several years ago, a young priest shouted from the crowd: "Holy Father, are you going to ordain women priests?"

Branches of Anglicanism which ordain women (such as in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the US) have continued to see large decreases in worshipping members.

He claims that Protestant churches have already ordained women: they have not.

Last fall, Ordain Women made a similar attempt to enter a priesthood meeting.

Baptists in England and Wales have been ordaining women ministers since the 1920s.