John Wijngaards

JOHN WIJNGAARDS, DD, LSS, is an internationally renowned theologian and Scripture scholar and is founder of the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, headquartered in London. He is one of the leading voices in the worldwide movement to include women in the Catholic priesthood. A former Mill Hill Missionary priest and vicar general of his Congregation, he resigned from the exercise of his priestly ministry in 1998 because of a conflict of conscience over the Church's refusal to ordain women. He did not resign from being a priest. His Institute's website, www.womenpriests.org, offers thousands of documents, in 26 languages, related to the subject of women's ordination. See more information about him on Wikipedia.