Controversy
From some conservative Catholic standpoints, the Church is controversial enough by its very existence, being a breakaway religious movement born in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, its founder and leader, ordained a Roman Catholic priest, has been consecrated Bishop "validly but illicitly" in the Episcopal lineage of Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa.
The Church’s commitment to the ordination of women led, in 2002, to the much–commented excommunication of seven Roman Catholic women by (then) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Bishop Braschi ordained the seven women, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Muller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White, priests on Saturday, June 29, 2002 (a date on which priestly ordinations are traditionally held) aboard a boat on the River Danube in Austria. The women are sometimes referred to as the Danube Seven. The official warning – "Monitum" (reprimand) – came from the Vatican on July 10, demanding repentance and threatening excommunication. The women, among their number some noted and acclaimed theologians, defended their position, and the threatened decree of excommunication duly arrived dated 5 August 2002, "with all the effects established by canon 1331 of the Code of Canon Law". The ordinations, or "simulations" of ordinations, according to the Vatican declaration, were considered null, void, and invalid by Rome, not on account of their holding Bishop Braschi to be a "schismatic", but because, as explained in Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, "the church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women" (n.4). In the Roman Catholic Church, in other words, the attempted ordination of women is invalid.
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