Posted on 11/20/2025 12:11:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As a Catholic, I've always thought the argument about women priests was a waste of time. There aren't going to be any, given Catholic Church doctrine. The Vatican is lately stringing the wokester women of the Church along on maybe deacons, but that's settled, too, the answer will be 'no.' It's hardly something to get upset about. Being a priest is just a role, and it doesn't give anyone an express route to Heaven if they don't behave. Why fuss about different roles played and insist on changing tradition which dates back to the Apostles when the idea is to just get to Heaven?
Not everyone, of course, sees it this way, and I am not going to argue that they are all bad people. But negating natural orders and breaking tradition does seem to be a leftist phenomenon, like changing boys into girls.
Not surprisingly, there does seem to be a negative effect for the Anglicans who have embraced this idea, according to a new study. Their church is shrinking.
According to the U.K. Telegraph:
Hundreds of Anglican vicars have converted to Catholicism since the early 1990s, a study has found.Roughly a third of all Catholic priests ordained between 1992 and 2024 were former Anglican clergy members.In total, about 700 former Anglicans or members of the Scottish Episcopal Church have been received into the Catholic Church over the same period.The study, carried out by St Mary’s University London, also identified 16 former Anglican bishops and two Continuing Anglican bishops who had converted over the same 32-year timespan.
That's a lot of flight for the Anglican priestly class, those Anglican priests are permitted in the Catholic Church to be married priests on the understanding that they won't be promoted to bishop while married -- which is something of....
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Which also means the remaining Anglican priesthood skews ever more liberal.
she is right about the toxic effect of woke lesbian priestesses. Whatever denomination, it is always the same. They spoil everything they touch.
You never see a conservative female priest—someone like Mother Theresa.
Priestesses are a pagan thing, not in the least bit Christian. This is why whenever you see a woman cos-playing as a priest, you can bet that what comes out of her mouth won’t be anything like Christianity.
Interesting how the African Anglicans have taken the baton of continuing Christianity from the fumbling blundering English Anglicans. Appointing a priestess to the office of Archbishop of Canterbury was a bridge too far.
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Roanoke, VA saw the writing on the wall nearly 30 years ago, and affiliated with the Anglican diocese of Rwanda. (they also RENT their facility from a nonprofit corporation that owns it. This kept the apostate Episcopal diocese from purloining the premises when they went African.)
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