for those who dont want to give traffic to the NCR:
1911: St. Joan's Alliance founded, works for women's suffrage and women's ordination.
1974: Eleven women ordained Episcopal priests.
1975: First Women's Ordination gathering in Detroit; Women's Ordination Conference founded.
1976: Experts of the Pontifical Biblical Commission determined that there were no scriptural reasons preventing women's ordination.
1976: Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith overturn the commission's judgment, issue Inter Insigniores stating women do not image Jesus.
1978: Second Women's Ordination Conference, held in Baltimore. WOC membership exceeds 3,000; Responding to Inter Insigniores, program heralds: "It's time to lay to rest the heresy that women cannot image Jesus in the priesthood."
1979: Pope John Paul II visits U.S.; WOC members, after all night vigil in Washington; greet pope as he emerges; WOC's Ruth Fitzpatrick, calls out; "Ordain Women!" Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane, then LCWR president, at National Shrine, addresses John Paul, urging him that all church ministries be open to women.
1983: Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith call upon bishops to refuse support to those who defend the priestly ordination of women.
1983: First International Women-Church Conference in 1983 in Chicago
1983: Women-Church Convergence, coalition of feminist non-profit organizations, forms. Women recognize women's ordination is not the primary issue for most women. Focus on broader justice and gender equality issues.
1992: U.S. bishops give up writing pastoral letter after trying nine-year effort.
1992: Ruth Fitzpatrick leads a trip to the Czech Republic to find Ludmila Javorova, one of the women ordained a priest in the underground Catholic Church of Communist Czechoslovakia.
1994: John Paul II Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, stating the subject of women's ordination to the priesthood is no longer open to debate.
1995: WOC celebrates 20th anniversary with Washington conference. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Diana Hayes, Mary Hunt reject women's ordination, saying it would result in subordination within a patriarchal system. Fiorenza rejects "kyriarchy," interlocking systems of domination and submission.
1995: Three dozen young women meet during WOC conference, forerunner of Young Feminist Network (YFN).
1996: Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) forms after women from six nations draw up charter.
2000: WOC celebrates "WOC 2000: If Roman Catholic Women Were Ordained Today" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2002: "Illicit" ordinations of seven women as priests on the Danube River between Austria and Germany.
2003: Difference of opinion and strategies grow among women as to ties with Catholic tradition as pathways to ordination splinter. "What is essential to our Catholic identity?" WOC asks.
2006: First "illicit" women ordinations in US.
2006: WOC approves to incorporate anti-racism, diversity and inclusion in WOC programs.
2015: WOC conveys 40th anniversary gathering in Philadelphia one week before Pope Francis visits the city
really doesn't look like the movement has much steam left in it based on those last few entries
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You know how people will say oh, X wave was feminism was good, but Y wave feminism is where it all went crazy?
From the Declaration of Sentiments, at the first women's rights convention, 1848:
Also note that the declaration is modeled on the Declaration of Independence—but rather than explaining why they are fighting to make themselves independent, the women merely give these reasons why they "insist" that government should be reformed as they want.
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I can't really picture these pushes for ordination as more than a trojan horse to push nth wave feminism shit into church doctrine like they have in prot denominations
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i think that was why they decline the womens diaconate, it would essentially be used for exactly that purpose
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"The world is in flames. Are you impelled to put them out? Look at the Cross. From the open Heart gushes the Blood of the Savior. This extinguishes the flames of heck. [My fellow Carmelites,] make your heart free by the faithful fulfillment of your vows; then the flood of divine love will be poured into your heart until it overflows and becomes fruitful to all the ends of the earth.".
–St. Teresa Benedicta a Cruce (St. Edith Stein)
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https://www.ncronline.org/key-dates-womens-ordination-history:
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