Today, take yourself aside and sit in silence. Be still, and meditate on the following news bit: two women were ordained as "Roman Catholic" priests in a St. Louis synagogue by an alleged Catholic female bishop; the women "priests" have been given permission to celebrate regular Masses in a local Unitarian Church.
Now, once you've absorbed this news item into the deepest recesses of your soul, ask yourself what words percolate up from the depths.
Peace.
©Bill Gnade 2007/Contratimes. All Rights Reserved.
4 comments:
The Archbishop had a few words, including at least one you mention in the title, to the dismay of all "right thinking" people who make a God of diversity.
My thoughts: If you don't want to play by the rules of the club, then don't join. Alternatively, one can quit if one dislikes the rules. There are plenty of Catholics who espouse a lot of doctrine which is frowned upon in Rome. They're called "Protestants."
Cheers.
A pertinent question, Randall, might be asked: Where's the outrage? For surely if this is anything it is outrageous. One could hardly find a more glaring example of that which should outrage. Alas, at least around these parts, not a whisper.
Gnade
Peter Kreeft from Boston University has an interesting discussion of this issue in The Philosophy of Jesus (St. Augustine's Press, 2007). He says that women can act as Man's messenger to God, because they are equally human. They cannot however represent God to Man, because God is our Father.
There's more to it, but I'm in my office and the book is home.
Anyway, there is no outrage, because the masses see this sort of thing as "progress." True Catholics know that having a female priest is not possible. Therefore, it is not worth contemplating anymore than thinking about men with wings.
Cheers.
This reminds me the little kids in our street (age 4 to 6) who got together for the wedding of two of them. Alas it was a short lived marriage - a sign of the times perhaps.
The event was of significance only to them in their fantasy world. So too in this story.
That said the debate on ordination of women is alive and well in NZ - as you can imagine, in this the first country in which women won the right to vote, you gotta say "Go girls!" or cook your own meals while sleeping in the shed.
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