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| . | Relevant journalistic/theological texts | Academic position |
| Marcel Vincent | Catholic Women Ordained Priests - Alternatives, les réseaux des PARVIS, no 18, Juin 2003, pp. 24-25 | theologian, France |
| Peter Trummer | Celebrating the Eucharist without a Priest?, Publik-Forum, nr. 15 (8 August 2003), pp. 52-53 | Professor of Liturgy, University of Graz, Austria |
| Camilo Macisse | Violence in the Church, The Tablet, 22 November, 2003. | President of the Union of Superiors General for six years until 2000 |
| Phyllis Zagano | Women Deacons - the Fears of Rome, The Furrow, September 2003, Volume LIV, Number 9, pp. 478-480. | lecturer Hofstra University, NY |
| Una Kroll | Dreams can Come True!, Circles, October 2003. | Theologian and Writer |
| Dr Jane Anderson | Tough LoveOCW NewsVol 11, No1, April 2004. | Theologian & Researcher |
| Michael Keane | The Call of Conscience. The dilemma of the Christian in a totalitarian church, Basic Newsletter, Spring 2003. | Priest Dublin Archdiocese |
| John Wilkins | The free media: a price worth paying, The Tablet, Nov.1st., 2003. | Editor of The Tablet |
| Malagoli | The Pregnant Virgin, Conscience, Spring (2003) p. 35. | Malagoli is a Belgian artist |
| Eamonn McCarthy | What about you, do you want to go away too? The oath of fidelity and its effect on the Church of our times...., BASIC Newsletter, Spring 2003. | Co-founder of BASIC and a priest in the Dublin Diocese. |
| Owen OSullivan | Where are the Priest-Prophets?, The Furrow 54 (2003) no1, pp. 37 - 42. | Owen OSullivan is an Irish Capuchin priest based in Belfast. |
| Michael Hewitt-Gleeson | What did Jesus Really Say About 'Women Priests?' | Dr. of Theology, Office of Principal, School of Thinking, Melbourne, Australia |
| Soline Vatinel | Shaping Change, Women, the Diaconate & Priestly Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, Hobart Conference, Nov 2002. | Founder of BASIC in Ireland. |
| Marlene Anne Aquino MACE | Woman to Woman, dissertation 2002 | Religious Sister, Australia |
| Joe Cecil | Public Petition to the Bishops for Women Priests, May 7, 2002 | USA; left the seminary on the occasion of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis |
| Una Kroll | Priesthood and Womanhood: Questions and Answers, Voices of this Calling, Canterbury Press 2003, pp. 33-35. | priest in the Church of England |
| Emma Percy | Acceptance and Joy, Voices of this Calling, Canterbury Press 2003, pp. 126-128. | priest in the Church of England |
| Del Cain | Women and Christianity A perspective from an ordinary member of the laity. | Retired librarian. Orlando, Florida. |
| José Manuel Vidal | The secret examination of new Bishops, CRONICA, El Mundo, Sunday 3 November 2002 Number 368. | Spanish Journalist |
| Aruna Rodrigues | A Wounded Body of Christ A perspective from an ordinary member of the laity. | . |
| John Wijngaards and others | Press Debate in the Irish Times, BASIC, 2001, pp. 24 - 32. | theologian & webmaster of this site |
| John Wijngaards | Discerning the Spirit's New Creation, Women's Ordination Worldwide, 1st International Conference, Dublin 2001, BASIC, 2002, pp. 30 - 52. | theologian & webmaster of this site |
| John J. Egan | Use the Gifts God Gives. Last Testament of Monsignor John J. Egan, National Catholic Reporter, June 1, 2001. | Priest in the archdiocese of Chicago |
| Catharine A. Henningsen | Shedding Light on Church Teachings. The American Catholic Talks with Bishop Raymond A. Lucker, The American Catholic, Feb. 2001. | Reporter |
| Veronica Brady | 'The God of Small Things' God, Women and the Question of Power BASIC, 2000, pp. 20 - 27 |
theologian |
| John Miller | And all was Revealed to
Him. The Bulletin, Dec. 2000, pp.38-39 |
writer |
| Janette Cranshaw | Pondering the Issue of Womens Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, January 2000. | theologian, writer |
| Jeannine Gramick, SSND | The Place of Silencing in the Teaching of the Church, presentation delivered at Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 16, 2000 | religious, theologian |
| Angela M. Cornyn | Once again, women are being cast out of the Catholic Church, Sunday Independent 15th Oct. 2000. | catechist, theologian and writer |
| Marcella M Althaus-Reid | On not Looking like Christ ..., Catholic Women's Ordination July/August 2000, no 18, pp 2-7. | Faculty of Divinity
New College, The University of Edinburgh |
| Roberta Meehan | Biology for Theologians. A Scientific Look at Male-Only Ordination | biologist, lecturer and author |
| John Wijngaards | Aquinas on Women, National Catholic Reporter January 14, 2000, p. 20. | Missionary Institute London, UK. |
| Eamon McCarthy | Soline Vatinel, the Archbishop and Me, BASIC Newsletter, 19 January 2000, pp. 26 - 31. | Priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland. |
| John Wijngaards | Are Women Called to be Priests?, The Tablet 8 April 2000, p. 474. | Missionary Institute London, UK. |
| Janette Cranshaw | Pondering the Issue of Womens Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, for www.womenpriests.org, January 2000. | Researcher |
| Joan Chittister | A Pope the Laity Want, National Catholic Reporter 1999. | Theologian, writer |
| Joanna Manning | The Catholic Church in the Next Millennium, from Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman confronts her Church,Malcolm Lester Books, Toronto, 1999 | Author, Lecturer |
| Richard McBrien | Muzzling the Theologians, the Tablet, 20 March 1999, p. 397. | Professor, Notre Dame University, Chicago |
| John Collins | Letter to Catholic Women, from Letters to Deacons, 1999. | Author |
| Anne Baring | The Separation from Nature and the Loss of the Feminine Aspect of Spirit and The Myth of the Fall and the Doctrine of Original Sin, seminars from a workshop, 1999. | Lecturer and author |
| John Wijngaards | The priesthood of Mary, The Tablet, 4 December 1999, pp. 1638 - 1640. | Missionary Institute London, UK. |
| John Wijngaards | When women were deacons, The Tablet, 8 May 1999, pp. 623-624. | Missionary Institute London, UK. |
| Kim E. Power | Re-imagining Mary at Christmas, Re-imagining Newsletter (Minneapolis) 16 (1998) November. | La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia |
| Marjorie Reiley Maguire | Bible, liturgy concur: women were there, National Catholic Reporter, June 5, 1998. | a theologian and attorney in Milwaukee |
| Ida Raming | The diaconate - a ministry for women in the Church, Orientierung 62 (1998) pp. 8-11. | Theologian and writer |
| Reinhold Stecher | Deficiencies of the Churchs present Leadership, The Tablet, May 1998. | Retired bishop of Innsbruck in Austria |
| Alain Woodrow | Free speech in the Church, The Tablet, 30th June 1998, pp. 841 - 843. | Religious correspondent of Le Monde in Paris |
| Catharina Broomé OP | The Priestly Vocation of Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Spirituality (1997), pp. 225-230 | lecturer & writer Stockholm, Sweden |
| Mary McAleese | It Wont Wash With Women, by Mary McAleese in The Tablet, March 15th., 1997. | President of Ireland |
| Francis Sullivan | Recent theological observations on magisterial documents and public dissent, Theological Studies, vol. 58, September 1997, pp. 509-515. | Gregorian University Rome, and Boston College, USA. |
| Peter Burns | Womens Ordination and Infallible Teaching, An Inquiry. Was the Teaching Infallible?, BASIC Newsletter, Supp. Feb. 1997, pp. 1-12. | Theologian, Los Angeles, USA. |
| Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu | Marie-Thérèse is definitely not a son of the Church!, Jésus, Les Cahiers du libre avenir, no 95, Dec 1997, pp. 38-41. | Lawyer and journalist. |
| John Collins | Should Roman Catholic Women seek to be ordained Deacons?, Ordination of Catholic Women Newsletter vol. 3, no. 1 (April 1996) pp. 5-11. | Scriptural theologian (Diakonia, Reinterpreting the ancient Sources (1990) and Are all Christians Ministers? (1992) |
| Joan Chittister | We can't suppress the Spirit, National Catholic Reporter 1996. | Benedictine Nun, Theologian, Writer |
| A. Koraszewski | Conceived in Sin, Warsaw 1996. | Author |
| Elizabeth A. Johnson | Disputed questions: authority, priesthood, women. Commonweal, vol..123, January 26 1996, pp. 8-10. | Fordham University, USA |
| Gesbert Greshake | Declaring My Position. Response to the Declaration of the Congregation For Doctrine regarding the doctrine proposed in the apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pastoralblatt 48 (1996) 56-57. | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Ann O'Hara Graff | Infallibility complex: Have we heard the final word on women's ordination? U.S. Catholic, vol.61, April 1996, pp. 6-11. | Seattle University, USA |
| Peter Hünermann | The discussion on Women Priests in the Catholic Church (Frauen Ordination. Stand der Diskussion in de Katholischen Kirche, ed. Walter Gross, Erich Wewel Publications, Munich 1996). | University of Tübingen, Germany |
| René van Eyden | Womenpriests: Keeping Mum or Speaking Out?, Acht Mei Beweging, 2 November 1996. | Professor Emeritus, Utrecht University, the Netherlands |
| Mary McAleese | Coping with a Christ who does not want women priests almost as much as He wants Ulster to remain British, Women Sharing Fully, Dublin 1995, pp. 11-21. | President of Ireland |
| Women-Church Convergence | Equal is as Equal does, challenging Vatican Views on Women, 1995. | Coalition of womens groups in the USA |
| Melanie McDonagh | Count me out!, The Tablet, 26 August 1995, pp. 841 - 843. | Journalist on the Evening Standard in London. |
| Francis Sullivan | Guideposts from Catholic tradition. Infallibility doctrine invoked in statement against ordination by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,America, vol. 173 , December 9 1995, pp. 5-6. | Gregorian University Rome, and Boston College, USA. |
| Nicholas Lash | On Not Inventing Doctrine The Tablet, 2 December 1995, p. 1544. | Cambridge University, UK |
| Indian Religious | Letter to Pope John Paul II, Response to the
apostolic letter of Pope John Paul II on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men alone, 31 October 1994. |
Fourteen Sisters, theologians and academics |
| John H. Wright | That all doubt may be removed, America 171 (July 30-Aug. 6, 1994) pp. 16-19. | Gregorian University, Rome; Berkeley University, USA |
| Ida Raming | A definitive No to the ordination of women?, Orientierung 58 (1994) pp. 190-193. | Theologian and writer |
| Peter Hünermann | A theologians dilemma on women priests, The Tablet, 3rd September 1994, pp. 1113-1115. | University of Tübingen, Germany |
| Josefa Theresia Münch | Letter to Pope John Paul II, sent on the 29th of May 1994. | Theologian and writer |
| Moya St Leger | Women and Ordination -- Time for Dialogue?, Priests & People 6 (1992) August-September pp. 327-329. | Journalist |
| Josefa Theresia Münch | My Letters to the Pope, The Catholic Citizen, Journal of St. Joans International Alliance, vol 72 (1991) no 1, pp. 18-29. | Theologian and writer |
| Irene McCormack | Do This in Memory of Me, from Compass Theology Review 25 (1991) no 4, pp. 33-35. | Theologian and missionary |
| Moya St Leger | Women Deacons: Goodwill Gestures, The Catholic Herald, August 19, 1990, page 5. | Journalist |
| Bernhard Häring | A Letter to the Pope , The Tablet, 30th June 1990, pp. 841 - 843. | Professor of Moral Theology, Alfonsianum, Rome |
| Lavinia Byrne | On being Women in the Church from Women before God SPCK 1988, pp. 97-108 | Broadcaster and author |
| Ben Witherington III | Women and the Third Evangelist from Women in the Earliest Churches, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 128-157. | Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 59. |
| Ben Witherington III | Trajectories beyond the New Testament Era from Women in the Earliest Churches,Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 183-210. | Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 59. |
| Joan Chittister | From Winds of Change: Women Challenge Church , Sheed & Ward 1986. | Theologian and author. Joan was at the time Prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA, and president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses. |
| Joseph S. O'Leary | Integrity, The Furrow, August 1985. | Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo |
| Joan Chittister, O.S.B. | Chapters in the book
Women, Ministry and the Church , Paulist Press,1983.
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Theologian and author; see above. |
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