Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
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In the liturgical traditions the Roman Catholic Church the term ordination refers to the means by which a person is included in one of the orders of bishops, priests or deacons. The teaching of the Catholic Church on ordination, as expressed in the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, is that "only a baptized man (Latin: vir) validly receives sacred ordination" and "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful." Additionally, the Roman Catholic Church currently ordains only men as deacons.
The church does not allow any transgender people to be ordained. The church considers trans men to be women, and considers trans women to be men of unsuitable character.
See also
- Female priest
- Ordination of women
- Complementarianism
- Mulieris dignitatem, a 1988 apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II
- Women in the Catholic Church
- Priest shortage in the Catholic Church
- LGBT clergy in Christianity
