Posted on 12/03/2007 7:41:06 AM PST by NYer
Nope. I checked with the home office. They are yours.
Fixed it for you.
Which one?
As a WASP male who really doesn’t know why; what is wrong with women priests? I have seen women pastors in chuches and they can be terrific.
Amen Popus Antoninus !
It’d also be terrific to have a medium rare porterhouse steak on Good Friday. Doesn’t make it right, though.
• Some women claim to be Catholic priests. Yet they are not real priests, nor are they even Catholic.
File these under concepts too difficult for the media to comprehend.
The worldeater 404? [urp!]
Perfect response.
Are you surprised?
Ignore this Chickite.
Yeah, I was just thinking about how the Unitarians could bill that: “Unitarian Service (Catholic Style)”
HaHa,
Pope Ace V
Irving's Law has just been invoked. Gamecock wins the round by default.
Not everyone recognizing your “Irving’s Law,” so the point is moot.
“It’d also be terrific to have a medium rare porterhouse steak on Good Friday. Doesn’t make it right, though.”
I was not being a wise guy. I was really inquiring why there cannot be women priests. Throwing another mystery at me doesn’t answer my question. We have so much terrible sin in this world, I would think the opportunity to add quality, moral, caring clergy would be a plus.
It depends where the clergy is grounded, what are their roots, what is the basis of their ordination and what is their theology.
There is a general assumption, at least in Europe and North America, that the Catholic Church’s insistence on a male priesthood is an obscure anomaly, which endures only because the popes have refused to move with the times.
Yet the times have often favored a female priesthood and never more so than when Christ ordained His first priests, nearly 2,000 years ago. Virtually all the pagan religions of His day had priestesses, and it would have been entirely normal and natural for Him to choose women for this task. He had, moreover, a number of excellent potential candidates, from His own Mother, who accompanied Him at His first miracle and stood with Him as He suffered on the cross, to Mary Magdalene or the women of Bethany. Instead, He chose only men, and He remained immovable on this, continuing right to the end to exhort and train them all, leaving thus a Church which turned out to be safely founded on a rock. From those twelve men a direct line of apostolic succession has given the Catholic Church the bishops and priests it has today.
Couldn't have said it better. Your pithy remark even alluded to the Big Lie, which was promised...
she makes helen thomas look female.
Ha! Ouch... ;-)
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