Ordynacja kobiet w dialogu anglikańsko-rzymskokatolickim w latach 1966-1992

Abstract

In 1976, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the Declaration Inter Insigniores, stated deary that "the Catholic Church doesn’t consider herself to be authorized to admit women to priestly ordination" The constant Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church has considered the practice of Christ and Apostles as a norm from which she couldn’t deviate. Neither Church understands itself to be competent to alter this Tradition. On the Anglican side there has been a growing conviction that there exist in Scripture and Tradition no fundamental objections to the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood. To continue to preclude women from being ordained priests in this generation damages the Christian witness to the world to the equality and status of women and men created in the image of God. The unity of humanity, an essential aspect of God’s good creation, is also obscured. This way on 11 November 1992, the General Synod of the Church of England passed, by a two-thirds majority in all three Houses, the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure. The voting was as follows: House of Bishops, 39 ayes, 13 noes; House of Clergy, 176 ayes, 74 noes, and House of Laity, 169 ayes, 82 noes. In Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical dialogue the question and practice of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood prevents reconciliation between our Churches even where there is otherwise progress towards agreement in faith on the meaning of the Eucharist and the ordained ministry. The ordination of women to the priesthood effectively blocked the path to the mutual recognition of ministries. The question ordination of women doesn’t destroy mutual commitment to a search for reconciliation, nevertheless that is serious obstacle in Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical dialogue.