Posted on 09/09/2016 7:00:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
NORTHBROOK, Illinois (RNS) Her whole life, Susan Vaickauski felt an internal struggle.
But earlier this summer, as Vaickauski lay prostrate at the foot of the altar of a church in the Chicago suburbs, while friends, family and supporters sang the litany of the saints over her, that struggle disappeared.
In its place, she said, she felt “this overwhelming sense of peace and just God saying, ‘Yes, this is exactly what I was asking of you. This is where I want you to be. This is what I want you to do.’ It’s this feeling of knowing you did what’s being asked of you.”
What she felt God asking her to do — what she always has felt God calling her to do, she said — was to become a Catholic priest, a vocation that has been barred to women.
She answered that call on Saturday, June 11, when she was ordained to the priesthood by Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an international movement to prepare, ordain and support female priests.
Vaickauski’s ceremony was held at a Protestant church, as the Roman Catholic Church officially does not recognize these ordinations. It follows the tradition that priests are modeling Jesus and that the 12 men he called as his apostles — the first priests — were all men. The movement to ordain women priests, however, maintains its bishops continue in the same apostolic succession since its first female priests were ordained by Roman Catholic bishops.
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What a bunch of creepy looking women. Even the pictures of the great saints behind them look distorted and strange.
Get back to me when Muslims let women run mosques.
So one can be ordained a Catholic Priest at a Protestant church. Good luck with that.
"Ordain a Lady" (YouTube Link)
Three minutes of zaniness. The don't even seem to realize that they are a self-parody.
What they are going to have to settle for is a Mass said by a male priest while a woman preaches, presides and provides running commentary. The Mass ad orientem and sotto voce will return, if only to allow the woman to be the voice and face of the Church facing the people while the man's personality is minimized.
... but that too will fail, because while the priest’s personality may be minimized, the Mass will still be the whole point.
transgender people think that they are something other than what they really are...anorexic people think that they are fat, and these women try to be Catholic priests...they aren’t and the Pope does not have the authority to change the rules....
God told her, and exactly too, all her life, wow! I know saints sometimes have visions and messages from God, but in the case of this lady it seems more like plain old psychosis.
The age of almost everyone in that picture puts a smile on my face. It would be really depressing if they were all 23 and attractive, right?
Freegards
Women Priests?
Won’t happen.
Ordained? No! Poor flakes have excommunicated themselves, and for what? Lord have mercy!
Re: “Ordain a Lady” (YouTube Link)
Equal parts ridiculous, cheesy, and sad...
Will women priests be allowed to marry?
Damn shame too. Being a catholic HS teacher, I see some Sisters who would be great priests. Their faith is unwavering, I simply don't see why someones gender keeps them from attaining the 'top spot' ,if you will, of their church only because they are a woman. Besides the boys in my school love them and respect them more so than the Brothers. For some reason the Sisters have more of a connection with them. The boy will stop what they are doing and help them with tasks - such as stocking shelves in the gear store, making lunches...
“Oft thought, but ne’er so well expressed”
Will male mothers be allowed to abort?
Neither is it a matter of job-competence. Look at the whole roster of female canonized saints: teachers, philosophers, spiritual counselors, administrators, organizers, evangelizers, writers,healers, reformers, missionaries --- none were priests. And none railed against this an injustice.
Neither is it a matter of comparative holiness. Mary is the holiest merely-human person ever to live, and in the midst of Mary's lowliest humility it pleased God to exalt her as Queen of Heaven and Earth. If she appeared to the Pope, which of the two, do you think, would drop to their knees? But she was not, and could not be, and even in heaven is not,a priest.
This is because priesthood is not just a "top spot" or a quest5ion of aptitude for the job description. It is a vocation based on a Sacrament, and as n all Sacraments, "Matter matters." It's not a "what you do," it's a "what you are."
There are only two Sacrament --- Holy Orders and Matrimony --- in which the person's sexual bodily deign as male or female has sacramental significance. Not just function, but significance. This is why, even after fertility and childbearing are out of the question, for instance because of age, marriage can still only be one male + one female. Their sex still signifies.
In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the priest's maleness signifies.
Think of that.
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