Posted on 10/12/2020 9:24:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some Catholic women in Britain are backing an online petition that urges the Church’s leadership in England and Wales to reverse their decision to use the “gender-exclusive” English Standard Version of the Bible (Catholic edition), instead of the Jerusalem Bible translation, at mass.
“In choosing this translation over the inclusive Catholic version of the New Jerusalem Bible, the Bishops have chosen to exclude at least 50% of the ecclesial community,” reads the petition to Cardinal Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
“Their choice of Bible translation can but speak of an attitude that continues to judge women second class citizens in the Church,” it adds. “Language shapes thoughts and attitudes, and the impact of rendering Holy Scripture in this way is to deny the inclusion of female disciples of Jesus, not only in the language of the liturgy, but in the good news of salvation.”
The petition has received 347 signatures as of early Sunday.
“It was to mutual interdependence that Jesus entrusted a woman and a man as he died upon the cross,” writes Bridget Kennedy, who started the petition. “It was a woman Jesus commissioned first Apostle of the Resurrection. It was the stories of the women of faith that Jesus heard the men repeating as they made their way together to Emmaus. The Bishops might have taken their lead from Jesus.”
She added that Pope Francis greeted the faithful “together as ‘fratelli e sorelle’ (brothers and sisters)” at his election address. “The Bishops might have taken their lead from the Vicar of Christ.”
Sarah Parvis, senior lecturer in Patristics at the University of Edinburgh, criticized the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland when it announced that leaders had decided to introduce the ESV for the lectionary in Scotland.
“They really need to consider more carefully the pastoral impact of continuing to prevent Catholic women from recognizing themselves as referred to in the words of Scripture in this way,” Parvis said at the time, according to The Tablet. “The U.S. evangelical Protestant provenance of the ESV translation is also a concern.”
Last April, the pope addressed “all Christian young people” in a document, calling for a church with “open doors” that could be attentive to women seeking “greater justice and equality,” according to The Washington Post.
He wrote that if a church remains on the defensive, it would stop listening to others or allow room for questions and turn into a “museum.”
“How, then, will she be able to respond to the dreams of young people?” Francis asked.
Shouldn’t that read supposed Catholics? Alleged Catholics?
The infiltration of the Church is pretty much complete around the world. The progressive left is on a roll!
Since there is a judgement at the end of this age, I wonder how harsh it will be for people that change God’s word to suit their own world view.
They have no fear towards their impending doom. If there is no manuscript evidence, there is no authority to change anything.
Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst them and blessed is the fruit of thy incubator Jesus. Holy Mary, Parent of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
King James Version? sure, if most people today can still understand Ye Olde English.
RE: Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst them and blessed is the fruit of thy incubator Jesus.
“them”? What ever happened to “women”?
incubator? What ever happened to “womb”?
such ignorant “Catholics,” its so discouraging!
Exactly.
I thought Catholic’s used the Catholic bible with the 5 extra non-canonical books.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
Genesis 3:17, “ because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree....”....woman are the weaker vessel, like it or not, and strictly prohibited from preaching to the Church for obvious reasons- all of which started in Genesis. A genderless Bible is an abomination.
The word!
For the several thousand years of its existence many have tried to change the worlds greatest book
Tyrants and communists fear this book more than any other on this great planet earth
The Christian Bible contents vary with time and place, with Ethiopia having the largest compendium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon
The KJV initially required all the books as the Catholic Bible but after the 1769 version seemed to have dropped the Apocrypha which was initially required by King James and referred to in the Lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Standard_text_of_1769
Cutting about a quarter of the pages enabled missionaries to translate the Bible into local languages faster.
incubator? What ever happened to “womb”?
Just trying to be gender neutral with a dose of sarcasm.
My personal preference is the NKJV.
Bingo.
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
The ESV comes in a Catholic Edition. In fact, it looks like there may be competing ESV - CE and ESV W/A editions out there.
http://catholicbibletalk.com/2020/04/a-brief-comparison-of-the-esv-w-apocrypha-and-the-esvce/
Revelation 22:18-19
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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