Title: Holy Thursday, Footwashing, and the Institution of the Priesthood – Catholic World Report
Headings: Holy Thursday, Footwashing, and the Institution of the Priesthood
Holy Thursday, Footwashing, and the Institution of the Priesthood
Basis for Holy Orders
Christ’s Countercultural Teaching
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Content: These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God’s plan for his Church. In Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul also quotes an address of Paul VI from 1977: “ The real reason is that, in giving the Church her fundamental constitution, her theological anthropology—thereafter always followed by the Church’