# Danube Seven > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Danube_Seven > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Danube_Seven.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Seven > Source revision: 1311660092 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Group of female Catholic priests}} The '''Danube Seven''' are a group of seven women from [Germany](/source/Germany), [Austria](/source/Austria) and the [United States](/source/United_States) who were [ordained](/source/ordained) as [priest](/source/priest)s on a ship cruising the [Danube](/source/Danube) river on 29 June 2002 by [Rómulo Antonio Braschi](/source/R%C3%B3mulo_Antonio_Braschi), [Ferdinand Regelsberger](/source/Ferdinand_Regelsberger_(bishop)), and a third unknown bishop. The seven women are: [Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger](/source/Christine_Mayr-Lumetzberger), [Adelinde Theresia Roitinger](/source/Adelinde_Theresia_Roitinger), [Gisela Forster](/source/Gisela_Forster), [Iris Muller](/source/Iris_Muller), [Ida Raming](/source/Ida_Raming), [Pia Brunner](/source/Pia_Brunner) and Angela White (the last a [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym) for [Dagmar Braun Celeste](/source/Dagmar_Braun_Celeste), the Austrian born former first lady of Ohio in the United States{{Cite web |last=Vries |first=Lloyd |date=17 October 2002 |title=Former Ohio First Lady Reveals A Secret |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ohio-first-lady-reveals-a-secret/ |access-date=17 May 2019 |work=CBS News}}). Braschi, an [Independent Catholic](/source/Independent_Catholic) bishop whose own ordination is in the line of [apostolic succession](/source/apostolic_succession) and thus considered [valid](/source/Validity_and_liceity_(Catholic_Church)) by the [Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church), was excommunicated by the latter.General Decree regarding the delict of attempted sacred ordination of a woman [https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20071219_attentata-ord-donna_en.html] The women's ordinations were not, however, recognized as valid by the Roman Catholic Church,[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3P.HTM Can. 1024] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203043116/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3P.HTM |date=December 3, 2010 }}: A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly although the women (and their successors) consider their own ordinations to be valid and even studied in a three year program, designed by Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, prior to their ordinations.{{cite web|url=http://romancatholicwomenpriests.org/ordained.htm|title=Roman Catholic Womenpriests|website=romancatholicwomenpriests.org|access-date=2015-10-04|archive-date=2015-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011061223/http://romancatholicwomenpriests.org/ordained.htm|url-status=dead}}Peterfeso, Jill Marie. “Transgressive Traditions: Roman Catholic Womenpriests and the Problem of Women's Ordination.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012. == Legal consequences and responses == On 10 July 2002, the [Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith](/source/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith) issued a ''[monitum](/source/monitum)'' against the women, warning that they would be [excommunicated](/source/Excommunication_(Catholic_Church)) if they did not admit the invalidity of the ordinations and repent.{{cite book|editor-last1=Shafiq|editor-first1=Muhammad|editor-last2=Donlin-Smith|editor-first2=Thomas|last=Mroz |first=Kate|title=Making Gender in the Intersection of the Human and the Divine|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1yJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA271|year=2019|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1-5275-2794-2|page=271|chapter=Is it Necessary to Break the Rules? A Comparative Look at Amina Wadud and the Roman Catholic Womenpriests Movement}} As a consequence of this violation of [canon law](/source/Canon_law_(Roman_Catholic_Church)), specifically canons 1008-1009 and 1024-1025, and their refusal to [repent](/source/repent), the Vatican excommunicated the women.Connoly, Kate and Willan Phillip. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/06/catholicism.religion "Vatican casts out 'ordained' women"], "[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)", August 6, 2002. The women asked the Vatican to revoke the excommunication, but this request was denied in [Decree on the Attempted Ordination of Some Catholic Women](/source/Decree_on_the_Attempted_Ordination_of_Some_Catholic_Women).[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20021221_scomunica-donne_en.html Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree on the attempted ordination of some Catholic women] In the course of these meetings the members arrived at the collegial decision to confirm the decree of excommunication. In the case under consideration, in fact, hierarchical recourse is not possible as it concerns a decree of excommunication issued by a Dicastery of the Holy See acting in the name of the Supreme Pontiff (cf. Canon 360). == See also == *[Ordination of women in the Catholic Church](/source/Ordination_of_women_in_the_Catholic_Church) *[Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of Jesus the King](/source/Catholic_Apostolic_Charismatic_Church_of_Jesus_the_King) == References == {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2173868.stm BBC story], 5 August 2002 *[http://www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/WOMPRS.TXT Women Priests?, EWTN] *[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2002/07/10/0363/01154.html#TRADUZIONE%20IN%20LINGUA%20INGLESE Full text of the 10 July 2002 ''monitum''] at ''Vatican.va'' Category:People excommunicated by the Catholic Church Category:Ordination of women and the Catholic Church Category:Independent Catholicism Category:Women's ordination activists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Danube Seven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Seven) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Seven?action=history)). 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