Five hundred priests threaten to leave Anglican church over female bishops

CNA ^ | June 17, 2008

[NYer]

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[fatima]

Wow.

[econjack]

I’d like to hear their reasons for being against female priests. Seems to me this has to be a pretty hard sell for a church.

[donna]

even though both are in favor of female clergy

It's okay for women to lead the flock; but, priests cannot be lead by women.

[CarryingOn]

It might be more appropriate to say that the church is leaving it's priest. It's a little late in the game to be deciding theology, unless The Times or The Guardian is their new scriptural guide.

[verga]

Hey guys ya know thee is a patoral precedent for having you guys come into the Catholic Church.

I'm just saying.........

[servantboy777]

Why a hard sell?

Maintaining orthodoxy is certainly in line with over two thousand years of biblical teaching.

[servantboy777]

No thanx, this Anglican will remain Anglican.

[Gay State Conservative]

If I was an Anglican priest I wouldn’t leave the church over female priests but I most assuredly would leave over practicing homosexuals as priests...like that freak in New Hampshire.

[A.A. Cunningham]

If these men are OK with female priests then they would be ineligible for ordination under the Pastoral Provision.

[TheThirdRuffian]

St. Paul set up who could and could not be a bishop, per inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and the list did not include women.

It’s very explicit.

[rabscuttle385]

Priestesses, homosexuals, bishopesses...oh my! What's next for the Anglican Church, golden calf worship?

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[HappyinAZ]

Excellent...that would be 500 narrow minded men that we don’t need in the Church in the year 2008.

[headsonpikes]

No Girlz Allowd! But they’re okay with faggots!

[TalonDJ]

No thanx, this Anglican will remain Anglican.

My parents go to an 'Anglican Use' Catholic church. Lots of your priests are making the switch.

[DCBurgess58]

Lot’s of Anglican priests think he’s kind of sexy.

[agere_contra]

I don’t particularly care what the Anglican entity does in this instance, but the problem with female priesthood comes down to Christ not creating any female Apostles.

The ‘Priestly’ sacraments - the ones only Priests can perform, were reserved to the Apostles and their descendants by Christ. Christ could have had female Apostles, but He did not do so. Was this a mere happenstance, or is there a reason we may not be seeing?

Given that Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity and God Almighty, created the very concepts of Male and Female, it’s not likely to be an accident. But it’s not obvious and self-evident that female Priesthood is incorrect.

It may be that a female Apostulate is like the gentile Apostulate. Gentiles were only introduced into the Church after St Peter’s vision of ritually unclean foods. My understanding is that it would take such an event - a vision, or perhaps other sign - for women to be admitted to the Priesthood within the Universal Church.

[Martin Tell]

Excellent...that would be 500 narrow minded men that we don’t need in the Church in the year 2008.

Excellent. That type of broad-minded, inclusive policy has emptied the pews everywhere it's been tried.

[vpintheak]

When supposed preachers of the word of God do not obey it, they are in trouble. That this is an issue is sad.