Posted on 02/02/2015 4:58:12 PM PST by cleghornboy
As noted here, Pope Francis, who once boasted of having been a bouncer,"has called for more women in the International Theological Commission, even after tripling the number of women on the team this past September. 'In the ever more diverse makeup of the Commission,' he said, 'I want to see a higher presence of women.'
The Pope also said recently that it is chiefly women who pass on the faith, and urged men to listen to women more and not be so 'macho.' He said that men often don’t allow enough room for women while 'women are capable of seeing things with a different angle from us, with a different eye.'
Got that? You men who are discerning a vocation to the priesthood must come to view masculinity as a sort of disease which leads to men ignoring women and ultimately excluding them. Men must be ashamed of their masculinity and learn to identify more with women. We don't listen enough to women? I think the problem, at least in the West, is that we cater too much to women. One could certainly argue that women in Islamic nations are suppressed and relegated to the status of furniture. But not in the West. Throughout the Church in the United States, women outnumber men in virtually every Church ministry. Everyone knows this. The absence of laymen participating in Church ministries to any appreciable degree is the result of the effeminization of the Church, the Cult of Softness.
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Baloney to the Poop!
Says the man with little red shoes.
He was just a bad choice.
The man’s a flamer. As in, a flaming ________.
I hope he’s addressing his comments to latin America. If America gets any more feminized we’ll stop procreating all together.
I’m sure his staff will now say he was mistranslated again.
Problem is that men ain’t manly enough.
Another day, another liberal edict from Peter the Roman.
Like I’ll take advice from a guy wearing a dress
Manly men are what the Church needs most.
Macho is something different.
Watch your words though Papa.
I don’t quite understand. ...does the shepherd want to neuter his flock? I don’t quite recall reading that in Scripture...
Speak for yourself. 5 grandkids and counting.
/johnny
Has Benedict recovered yet?
I was complaining, not endorsing, by the way.
Oh, please, Francis, stop. As a single woman, my biggest dating problem has been the lack of masculinity in so many men these days.
/johnny
This Pope should take a vow of silence.
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