After school Raming studied Catholic
theology,
German and
pedagogy at the
University of Münster and the
University of Freiburg. She finished university in 1973 and worked as a teacher at Gymnasium Martinum
Emsdetten 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
Argentina who left the Roman Catholic Church out of disagreement with the anti-liberation theology of the Vatican to join the
Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of Jesus the King. In the media, the ordained women were called the
Danube Seven because they were ordained on the
Danube River near the town of
Passau on the border between Germany and Austria. In 2003 Raming was
excommunicated from the
Roman Catholic Church. 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
misogynistic religious restrictions including the exclusion of women from ordained offices was the impetus behind her actions. == Works ==