Theologians now face either-or- situation: Vatican Council III may be only path to new church reform.(Women's Ordination/Infallibility)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 15, 1995| Author: Kung, Hans | Copyright information

The use of the term infallibility is dividing the Catholic church instead of uniting it. Defeat of the divorce referendum in Ireland is one indication of a need for Catholic church reform. Bans on contraception, and the ordination of women are controversial topics that now fall under infallibility.

However much Catholic theologians may wriggle and whatever contortions the reinterpreters of dogma may indulge in, the impossibility of women being ordained priests is now an "irrevocabl...

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