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| St. Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias II.5: Orders of the Church. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 66r. |
After offering an initial set of thoughts in my last post on the possibilities for using ancient notions of ordination to expand the authority of women in today’s Church while also preserving the sacramental reasons for the male priesthood, I had a lively conversation with various friends and colleagues that brought to light several areas of concern, reconsideration, and clarification:
1. An Order of Doctors? The magisteria of bishops and of theologians
