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Hello,
Enjoyed this article. I have been in a quandary for a long time about the Church. I was born and reared a Roman Catholic, but am totally against their stand on homosexuals.
I just quit going some years ago. I have tried other Churches, sang in a Methodist Church choir, a couple years
and thught the Episcopalian might be the answer.
In Kansas City, I led some clergy groups in growth things, and Bishop Dick Grein was with one of my groups, and a friend.
But, while I feel very close to men like him in that Church, it just doesn't ever seem right. In the marrow of my bones, I seem to be a RC; not a good one or anything like that, but so it seems.
I feel the Church left me, and so many others.
With conversation like this, things have got to change but probably long after I have died. I am 79. Some people pass away, or are lost, etc., but I believe we all just die.
--BROB
09/21 |
The Pope Joan Myth was busted in the 1600s – By a Protestant! Check it out here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan
Excerpt from above link:
“Most scholars dismiss Pope Joan as the medieval equivalent of an urban legend.[1] The Oxford Dictionary of Popes [2] acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is "no contemporary evidence for a female pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign," and goes on to say that "the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit [a female pope] in."
The legend of Pope Joan was initially discredited by David Blondel, a mid-17th century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who upon his death was in his early 20s. Blondel, through detailed analysis of the claims and suggested timings, argued that no such events could have happened.”
--STM
09/02 |
Do you people know what it means to be a Catholic Priest?
Nobody has the right to be a priest -- male, female, what ever. Nobody! A priest is an icon of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a real person, a male, who actually walked the face of the earth. God calls priests, and has since the old Testament and they have all been male. All of them. You talk like the pope is making this stuff up! Does God not trust women to be priests? Hardly! But a priest has to be in the community to be in the place of Christ, to even sacrifice himself if need be. I know there are a ton of crummy male priests. That doesn't give us the license to change the way God intends the priesthood to work.
We have Nuns, Sisters and Mothers -- Gods way of calling women to be icons of Mary the mother of Jesus, the Theotolkos, the mother of God. I wonder if God calls women to be nuns, their pride gets the better of them and they think "I deserve a life better than a nun's life, I deserve to be a priest!" And that's disturbing. A priest's life is certainly not something a person deserves. A good priest knows they are totally unworthy to stand in the place of Christ and is totally unworthy to hold the consecrated Eucharist.
Do you know what the Catholic Church is? The Church is Jesus Christ's Bride on earth! The Catholic Priest is literally married to the Church. Nuns are married to Jesus Christ (they actually wear a wedding dress the day they become a nun). So why can't the women priests be married to the mother church? because marriage designed by God is between a man and woman. I recommend people read the Theology of the Body, derived by John Paul II and explained by Christopher West.
It all comes down to the question: Is it at all important that God made us male and female? Please please please have an open mind, find out what the Catholic Church *REALLY* says about this question, and then talk about women as priests.
Lastly and seriously, that junk about the pope's chair, Pope Joan, and the fiction about a testicle hunting ceremony -- back it up with a source! I dare you to put a credible source at the end of any of the statements you have at the start of this article. A transcript of the ceremony you are talking about, a document about pope Joan that is credible, heck, a picture of the chair you are talking about. Pope Joan is a hoax. If I am wrong, prove it with a credible source. To write so flippantly is insulting.
Please know that you and all women clergy are deeply in my prayers! Don't be afraid to be women in the church! Peace!!!
--BAFM
09/02 |
I'm glad that my denomination allows female clergy. However, with Catholicism (as with the Anglicans), the majority of worshippers aren't from the US/Canada/western Europe: they're from the developing world, where 60% of followers definitely don't support women in the priesthood. There's a kind of cultural imperialism here, unfortunately, when we want our minority social attitudes to be law for a global body. I think our social attitudes are better, but if American bishops started ordaining women, the American Catholic church might be kicked out of Catholicism, just as the arguments over gay issues within the Anglican church may lead to a schism. Maybe it's worth it, and I can't fault people who feel called to the ministry for pursuing it, but I think it's important to mention that this isn't a straighforward issue.
--ah
09/02 |
Women who claim to be Roman Catholic Priests are not. They may be Catholic, baptized Roman Catholic, but they are not recognized as priests by the majority of Catholic laity and not by the clerty or Magisterium.
If you violate certain rules of an organization, and they say you can't do certain things, you no longer represent that group no matter what you say. You can call yourself a member but saying it does not make it so. I think the heads of the church are just biding their time to figure the best way to handle this phenomena of many women in a short period of time claiming to be ordained Roman Catholic priests. They can disagree all they want, you can take as many polls as you want - not so - sooooorry!
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08/30 |
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