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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s Reflections and Actions Regarding the Impossibility of Ordaining Women. Selected Theological and Legal Issues
Bartosz Trojanowski
Abstract
The problem of the impossibility of ordaining women was extensively clarified by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1976 in the declaration Inter insignores, but after the publication of this document the discussion was not closed, and there were claims that the question was still open. It was therefore necessary for the papal teaching office to intervene in order to clarify the matter. However, this issue was also subject of further discussion and various kinds of conundrums. Thus, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s reflection on this question is not only to emphasise that the Church cannot transcend the boundaries that constitute its constitutive elements, since it has no such authority. On the other hand, the theological foundations of the various categories of truth are translated into their normative and disciplinary provisions in canon law. Therefore, the article addresses the dependence of Cardinal Ratzinger’s theological reflection and its consequences in the universal legislation of the Church.
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sacrament of Holy Orders, impossibility of ordaining women, Ordinatio sacerdotalis, Inter insignores, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, categories of truthDetails
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