Ida Raming (born August 10, 1932 in Fürstenau,

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and

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Life

After school Raming studied Catholic

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at the

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and the

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. She finished university in 1973 and worked as a teacher at Gymnasium Martinum

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in Germany. She wrote several books concerning women's rights in the Roman Catholic Church. On 29 June 2002, Raming and six other women were ordained priests by Independent Catholic bishop Rómulo Antonio Braschi, a former Roman Catholic priest from

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who left the Roman Catholic Church out of disagreement with the anti-liberation theology of the Vatican to join the

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. In the media, the ordained women were called the

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because they were ordained on the

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near the town of Passau on the border between Germany and Austria. In 2003 Raming was

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from the

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. Raming, who in 1986 had co-founded ''Gruppe Maria Magdala, Priesteramt für die Frau'', which promotes priesthood for women, indicated that her personal experience of

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religious restrictions including the exclusion of women from ordained offices was the impetus behind her actions.''Frauen und katholische Kirche''
, Wir sind Kirche.

Works

* 2007: ''Unser Leben im Einsatz für Menschenrechte der Frauen in der römisch-katholischen Kirche''. Lit, Berlin/Münster, (together with Iris Müller). * 2006: ''Gleichrangig in Christus anstatt: Ausschluss von Frauen „im Namen Gottes“''. Lit, Berlin/Münster, . * 2002: ''Priesteramt der Frau: Geschenk Gottes für eine erneuerte Kirche''. Lit, Münster/Hamburg/London, . Erweiterte Neuauflage von „Der Ausschluß der Frau vom Priesterlichen Amt“ (1973) with bibliography (1974–2001) * 1998: ''Aufbruch aus männlichen „Gottesordnungen“: Reformbestrebungen von Frauen in christlichen Kirchen und im Islam''. Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim, . * 1998: ''Zur Priesterin berufen''. Thaur, Thaur/Wien/Munich, (as editor). * 1989: ''Frauenbewegung und Kirche: Bilanz eines 25jährigen Kampfes für Gleichberechtigung und Befreiung der Frau seit dem 2. Vatikanischen Konzil''. Studien-Verlag, Weinheim, . * 1973: ''Der Ausschluss der Frau vom priesterlichen Amt: Gottgewollte Tradition oder Diskriminierung? eine rechtshistorisch-dogmatische Untersuchung der Grundlagen von Kanon 968, § 1 d. Codex Iuris Canonici''. Böhlau, Cologne/Wien, (dissertation).

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* Ida Raming and Iris Müller
''Erklärung anlässlich der Frauenordination in Österreich''
Kirche von unten, June 2002.
Ordination of more women in 2005Zeit: Seven days with Ida Raming (german)
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