Posted on 04/19/2022 7:15:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
Hong Kong’s Bishop Stephen Chow expressed hope April 13 for the Catholic ordination of women, joining several European bishops who have expressed similar sentiments in recent years.
During his homily at the Hong Kong diocesan Chrism Mass April 13, Bishop Chow said he had “turned to English, just to address our ordained brothers, and I hope one day maybe ordained sister[s] too.”
The bishop’s homily did not focus on the topic, instead calling priests and deacons to “synodality through our own ministries in collaboration with the different capacities, or different roles, among the People of God… discerning for the direction in which the Spirit wants us to move as a body.”
With an allusion to the language of Pope Francis, the bishop also called his clergy to be “shepherds…realistic yet transcending, not stuck in a specific time or space, and not being shepherds without the smell of the sheep.”
Pope St. John Paul II taught in 1994 “that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.”
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Chow, 62, became Hong Kong’s ninth bishop in December. The bishop was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, in July 1994.
Without a doubt, the Church is heading for a crack-up within the next decade or so. These clowns can’t square the circle. You can’t have a generation of Bergoglian bishops who are fine with womenpriests, homosexual acts, homosexual “marriage” etc etc. and escape without consequence.
Is this from the pope agreeing to let the CCP pick the RCC leaders?
1 Corinthians 14:34 (KJV):
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.”
Can a biblical case be made for the office of Deaconess?
For all the folks ready to jump down my throat, the above is a question out of my ignorance, not a statement of fact.
Some have mentioned that, but others see it as a stealth means to start down the slippery slope towards full ordination.
Jesus chose twelve men, and as God He knew 2,000 years later it would be debated. He did it anyway.
The “permanent deaconate” itself is problematic, especially for many priests who feel it reduces priestly vocations by letting men “play priest” while having a family.
Envy possessed leftists are always hammering on about something. When good caves to envy, leftists just advance and set up camp at the next obstacle. Imagine what they’d proceed to if we let them ban our tyrant prevention tools, or the right of self-defense. Their ultimate goal is the total destruction of everything good. They believe only then will their envy abate, and their lasting happiness arrive.
“Deaconesses” in the early church were not ordained and were not clerics. Their main job was to assist the priests in baptizing women; baptisms were generally conducted in the nude in those days.
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