A campaigner for women's ordination to the priesthood, Pohl-Henzen told the Swiss Catholic Church's official media she "no longer climbs the barricades and calls for the female priesthood, even if I think that is fundamentally good."
"We have to take small steps for the good of the Church, otherwise there will be a split in the Church. First, we need the women's diaconate," she affirmed.
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When asked what she would say to a priest if he came to her and challenged her authority saying "You have nothing to say to me," Pohl-Henzen replied: "I will answer: Please go to the bishop. But the bishop will probably send him back to me and say: You have to discuss this with the person in charge."
1 posted on
05/26/2020 10:33:42 AM PDT by
ebb tide
To: Al Hitan; Coleus; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; markomalley; ...
2 posted on
05/26/2020 10:34:14 AM PDT by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide
Christ, save your Church from this generation of hirelings.
3 posted on
05/26/2020 10:36:59 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
To: ebb tide
Miss Dolores Grier was named vice chancellor by Cardinal John O'Connor, then Archbishop of New York, in 1985.
She was an outspoken pro-lifer and assailed abortion in NYC as "black genocide". Miss Grier strongly criticized Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices. “What are they bringing to us, people of color?” she asked. “They’re not bringing jobs, they’re not bringing food, they’re not bringing skills. They’re bringing death.”
She also refused an honor from the New York City branch of the NAACP because of the organization’s pro-abortion stance.
I don't know whether she actually had any direct authority over priests. I'm not saying it was right or wrong for her to have the position of chancellor (or vice-cancellor) of the Archdiocese. I'm saying it's really nothing new.
6 posted on
05/26/2020 11:38:35 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Philosophy isa battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Wittgenstein)
To: ebb tide
Looking at that second picture of her, I have to wonder whether she’s a lesbian (despite the fact that the article states she is married and has kids).
10 posted on
05/26/2020 2:41:22 PM PDT by
piusv
(Francis didn't start the Fire)
To: ebb tide
Looking at that second picture of her, I have to wonder whether she’s a lesbian (despite the fact that the article states she is married and has kids).
11 posted on
05/26/2020 2:41:22 PM PDT by
piusv
(Francis didn't start the Fire)
To: ebb tide
She looks like a man anyway, so what’s the dif?
To: ebb tide
"
Canon law is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members."
Man made rules, for man made beliefs.
Fallible man will make fallible decisions and make them law.
13 posted on
05/27/2020 2:47:11 AM PDT by
SERE_DOC
( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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