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poche · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2014, 03:57:26 AM »

Now that the Old catholic Communion has accepted woman's ordination the validity of their ordinations will soon become an open question.

TKGS · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2014, 06:48:59 AM »

Many of the arguments against the Anglican Ordinal apply to the Novus Ordo, something that even Michael Davies commented upon in The Rite of Melchizedek though he inexplicably rejects the implications.

As for the Old Catholics, I have been led to believe that they had also changed their ordinal somewhat and their orders may already be patently invalid, though I don't have specific knowledge of the issue; but, I agree that the acceptance of priestesses, by its very nature, means that the understanding of the true priesthood is corrupted and requires one to presume that priests ordained by a bishop who has such a theology is not validly ordained.

Sigismund · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2014, 08:56:08 PM »

Old Catholics are a mixed bag. Some of them do ordain women, and I agree with Poche that that at the very least calls their orders into question. I can't see how someone who thinks women can be priests could have a valid intention. The "real" Old Catholics (the Europeans in communion with the Old Catholic See of Utrecht and the Polish National Catholic Church in this country) as far as I know do not ordain women. The PNCC broke communion with the Anglicans when they started ordaining women, the European Old Catholics did not. The so called Independent Old Catholics often have very questionable orders. I would think the prudent thing to do now would be o be very skeptical about Old Catholic ordinations that have occurred in the last 20 years or so.

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Author Topic: Anglican Orders (Read 1617 times)

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