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Mission
Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) is an international initiative within the Roman Catholic Church. The mission of Roman Catholic Womenpriests North America is to spiritually prepare, ordain, and support women and men from all states of life, who are theologically qualified, who are committed to an inclusive model of Church, and who are called by the Holy Spirit and their communities to minister within the Roman Catholic Church.

Bishop Christine Mayr Lumetsberger
(Austria)
and Bishop Gisela Forster, Ph.D. (Germany)
ordaining womendeacons, Danube, 2004
False and True
FALSE: Women (by
virtue of their sex) cannot image Christ.
TRUE: It is the call
of every female and male Christian to image Christ; and it is the
call of every female and male Christian to see Christ in every
person.
FALSE: Roman Catholic
women have never been ordained.
TRUE: Epigraphic
evidence exists of women bishops. Until at least the ninth century
the Church gave women the full sacramental ordination of deacons.
Women priests existed in the West during the 4th and 5th centuries
according to literary evidence, and according to epigraphic
evidece.
FALSE: Roman Catholic women have not been ordained deacons or priests
in the modern era.
TRUE:
Ludmila Javorova, ordained priest, December 28, 1970, among
other women ordained.
For a list of other women ordained, please visit the History Page.
FALSE: These ordinations as women priests are not recognized
or valid.
TRUE: The group "RC Womenpriests" receives its
authority from Roman Catholic bishops who stand in full Apostolic
Succession. These bishops bestowed sacramentally valid ordinations
on the women listed above. All the documents pertaining to these
ordinations have been attested and notarized. All minutes of the
ordinations, including data about persons, Apostolic Succession, and
rituals, together with films and photos are deposited with a Notary
Public.
FALSE: Mandatory celibacy goes back to the earliest days of
the church.
TRUE: Scripture citations
refer to the marriage of Simon Peter. Citations also
refer to married bishops and deacons in the earliest Christian
churches.
1.) Jesus heals Simon Peter's mother-in-law Matthew 8:14; Mark
1:30; Luke 4:38.
2.) 1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop must be irreproachable married only once.
1 Timothy 3:4 A bishop must manage his own household well, keeping
his children under control with perfect dignity.
3.) 1 Timothy 3:12 Deacons may be married only once and must manage
their
children and their households well.
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