Posted on 02/11/2023 11:48:58 AM PST by ebb tide
Europe’s synodal continental assembly appealed Thursday for “courageous decisions on the role of women within the Church.”
According to the assembly’s final document — which is in draft form and is not expected to be finalized for weeks — participants at the meeting in Prague supported the greater involvement of women “at all levels, also in decision-making and decision-taking processes.”
The text did not specify what it meant by “courageous decisions” or which “decision-taking processes” it was referring to.
Some delegates, notably from Germany, had urged the assembly to endorse the ordination of women as deacons and priests, but they faced pushback from other participants.
Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), told delegates Feb. 8 that “the confinement of women to the space outside of the ordained ministry” was driving young women out of the Church.
But on the same day, Polish delegate Aleksander Bańka criticized what he called “the deceptive charm of superficial solutions, such as the idea of women’s ordination,” which seemed “to fall into the trap of neo-clericalism.”
The draft final document was read out Feb.9, the last day of the first part of the continental assembly: an ecclesial assembly involving what synod organizers called “the whole people of God.”
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“Courageous decisions” means “apostacy and heresy”.
As if bearing and raising children is not courageous.
Today a courageous decision on the role of women would be to acknowledge the differenced between men and women, and to reaffirm our Lord’s divine decision to restrict ordination to men. Calling for the elimination of the differences between the sexes and for the ordination of women is not courageous, but a cowardly act surrendering to the mind of the world, and to the prince of this world.
Women attending mass far outnumber men attending mass. The feminization of the Church drives men away.
Modern liturgical music sounds as if it were written for little girls. I am grateful that the Catholic parish we attend has music for grown-ups.
ditto
When this pope states that he wants the nations that have antisodomy laws to repeal them also drives people from the church.
bkmk
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