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Women Priests by Patrick Henry Reardon

by Patrick Henry Reardon By submitting this article in response to Dr. Thomas Torrance I intend, in the first place, to pay my respects. When I read his recent argument favoring the ordination of women (“The Ministry of Women,” Touchstone 5.4, Fall 1992), I felt that the author had to be answered. Not that the lines of his argument are either especially persuasive or particularly original. I believe that they are neither, having used some of them myself back when I was an Evangelical Protestant and thought women’s ordination an idea whose time had come. But Dr. Torrance is Dr. Torrance, after all, and anything

On the limitations of episcopal poachers

By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 22, 2020 In the tenth point in my recent Corrective to the Schneider statement on the COVID vaccines, I outlined one of the limits of the episcopal teaching authority: “[B]ishops have no teaching authority outside their own dioceses, and it is an abuse of their office to make individual or joint statements pretending to answer critical moral questions for the whole Church.” A number of readers regarded this as overly restrictive of the bishop’s apostolic commission to teach the Faith, and I can see that what I wrote can be understood as too sweeping. Therefore, I want to make sure here that my intended meaning is not misunderstood. Of necessity, since nothing should be taken on my own authority, I will quote extensively from the most relevant Church documents.

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