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Newly Ordained, Popular Rochester Priestess Says Her First "Mass"
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Posted on 11/19/2001 6:09:34 AM PST by Notwithstanding

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To: wai-ming
I don't think so, as I explained it in post 32. If you have the time, I gave scriptural references to back up my statements--they are worth looking at.
41 posted on 11/19/2001 7:13:23 AM PST by JMJ333
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To: wai-ming
And whom would upgrade God's Word?
42 posted on 11/19/2001 7:13:31 AM PST by LisaAnne
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To: patent
>>To the Rochester diocese and Vatican, Ramerman's ordination represented nothing more than the ordination of a minister in a breakaway Protestant church.

>Right, so stop calling her Catholic.

She's not "Protestant" either, as her whole point is to be as Catholic as possible (except for following rules which prevent her from achieving a certain level of power). Disagreeing on a couple points doesn't make her a "Protestant", even if the disagreement gets her booted out.

43 posted on 11/19/2001 7:18:56 AM PST by ctdonath2
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To: LisaAnne
This is just more of the culture war. Christians and Jews who take the scripture and doctrine handed on to them at face value are considered fools by the real fools who think that untested and dengerous newer ideas (such as darwinism, marxism, steinemism, clintonism, nazism, singerism, etc.) are worth embracing merely because they are new and interesting - and more importantly seemingly don't require any moral self-restraint. (Ask the former soviet citizens if morality had been legislated in the USSR or ask churches that MUST fund abortions in their medical plans due to US socialism have any moral constraints upon them).
44 posted on 11/19/2001 7:22:46 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
Rochester is a pit of Catholic Heretics. Good riddance. I feel about this like the SBC feels about some of the churches they let go here in Memphis
45 posted on 11/19/2001 7:24:47 AM PST by Nov3
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To: ctdonath2
She's not "Protestant" either, as her whole point is to be as Catholic as possible (except for following rules which prevent her from achieving a certain level of power). Disagreeing on a couple points doesn't make her a "Protestant", even if the disagreement gets her booted out.

IMO, protesting by thought, word and deed the authority of the bishop of Rome makes her a Protestant by definition, though not of Reformation vintage. Maybe we should call her a neo-Protestant. Or, since she seems to want to hide her protest behind the externals of Catholic liturgy, a crypto-Protestant.

Call her what you want, but she's no Catholic.
46 posted on 11/19/2001 7:24:59 AM PST by eastsider
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To: ctdonath2
Actually, any Christian who does not accept Pope John Paul II as the earthly leader of Christendom is Proestant. Luther created a sect that was just like Catholicism in appearance (just like thse Spiritus Christi people have done). And of course the Anglican and Episcopalian churches also originally mimiced the Catholic liturgy and doctrines down to the slightest degree - even today they are hard to tell apart in many important visual ways.
47 posted on 11/19/2001 7:26:57 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: jackbill
It is the Pope who is considered infallible, by real Catholics, when he is speaking "ex cathedra".

Correct you are jackbill. For those interested, the explanation of papal infallibility can be found here.

48 posted on 11/19/2001 7:28:25 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: JMJ333
Thanks for the references. I will read them carefully. Actually, 1 Cor. 14: 34-35 can be used in support of your position in favor of non-ordination of women.

However, the same verses can be taken to the extreme, in probiting women from saying anything in church. I am not advocating that, I'm just pointing out the contradictions between what's "Biblical" and what is actually practiced today.

49 posted on 11/19/2001 7:29:34 AM PST by wai-ming
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To: Chemnitz
Amen bro. The girls are now SERVERS, so they of course think they can be priests.

10 to 1 she's a lesbian or a wanna-be lesbian or radical pro-abortion. Woe to her and her minions who lead people astray.

50 posted on 11/19/2001 7:30:51 AM PST by Ann Archy
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To: JMJ333
Sorry, but I'll get up and leave Mass before I take communion from a woman. I have no intention of sitting through a celebration of the Mass with a woman presiding--flame away.

No flames here...I agree completely. This ordination is evil. Not just wrong.

51 posted on 11/19/2001 7:32:31 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: Chemnitz
It's a little difficult for this Lutheran to unravel all the facts.
Not your fault, these people do that on purpose. Wolf in sheep’s clothing sort of thing.
I noticed one thing. Father Mary was already performing pastoral acts before she left to become a priest on her own.
Yes, they have a long history of dissent, and only left when the Church was about to boot them.
The pastor is assisted by a woman during certain parts of the worship service.
Without knowing which parts I probably shouldn’t speak, but I suspect this violates the rules. The women may serve as alter girls, lectors, or distribute communion, but that is it. They cannot read the Canon, the parts of the Mass. If they are doing so your brother attends a bad parish and should find another.
The women are already installed in positions of power.
This is one major cause of the so-called vocations crisis. Feminist nuns who run vocations offices and screen out men who don’t agree with them theologically. Those dioceses that won’t allow such women to assume control do very well. Those that have such nuns don’t have many vocations. Its part of the liberal attempt to force the Church to accept women priests. Problem is that they are losing power today, and vocations are rising fast.
I think the Church of Rome will be ripped up by it as well.
It certainly has been.
What many people do not anticipate is this - that women clergy will network and serve as shock-troops for abortion on demand and homosexual ordination.
We’ve seen it happen to others, and you can’t make a case for women’s ordination today that passes the laugh test in serious Catholic circles.

patent  +AMDG

52 posted on 11/19/2001 7:37:43 AM PST by patent
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To: ctdonath2
>Right, so stop calling her Catholic.
She's not "Protestant" either,
She is not a classical Protestant, but neither are most people we call Protestants these days. She did leave in the same fashion and was ordained by a Protestant era denomination. I would have to agree with you that she doesn’t adhere to the theologies of a Luther, Calvin, or Zwingli, but then many Protestants don’t today.
as her whole point is to be as Catholic as possible
Not at all. She disagrees on nearly everything necessary to be a Catholic. Abortion, homosexuality, women’s ordination, the Pope, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, Salvation theology, you name it, she (and this parish in general, they have a long, long history not mentioned in this article) does not agree with us on it. She wants to appear Catholic, but she most certainly does not want to be Catholic, at least to the extent that term has any meaning.
Disagreeing on a couple points doesn't make her a "Protestant", even if the disagreement gets her booted out.
She didn’t get booted (though she would have), she left. She left in protest. I will agree that she is not a classical Protestant.

patent  +AMDG

53 posted on 11/19/2001 7:38:37 AM PST by patent
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To: pgkdan
The most evil thing about it is that the poor priestess has been encouraged and lauded by others. It is evil to do the wrong thing, but encouraging another to do evil is evn worse in the eyes of God. The millstone thing. I pray the men who are pushing her along will see the error of their ways and repent (as I do that she herself will). Think of all the poor people who have no idea what is really going on here and think this is just a nice little women's rights thing. "Isn't that special - the nice lady gets to serve God now - you've come a long way baby!"
54 posted on 11/19/2001 7:38:51 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: wai-ming
I don't feel excluded at all. :)

The presence and the role of women in the life and mission of the Church, although not linked to the ministerial priesthood, remain absolutely necessary and irreplaceable....just different!!

The New Testament and the whole history of the Church give ample evidence of the presence in the Church of women, true disciples, witnesses to Christ in the family and in society, as well as in total consecration to the service of God and of the Gospel.

By defending the dignity of women and their vocation, the Church has shown honor and gratitude for those women who, faithful to the Gospel, have shared in every age in the apostolic mission of the whole People of God. They are the holy martyrs, virgins and mothers of families, who bravely bore witness to their faith and passed on the Church's faith and tradition by bringing up their children in the spirit of the Gospel.

55 posted on 11/19/2001 7:40:03 AM PST by JMJ333
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To: Ann Archy
10 to 1 she's a lesbian or a wanna-be lesbian or radical pro-abortion.

Heather's Mommy is a Father.
56 posted on 11/19/2001 7:42:17 AM PST by eastsider
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To: patent
This is one major cause of the so-called vocations crisis. Feminist nuns who run vocations offices and screen out men who don’t agree with them theologically. Those dioceses that won’t allow such women to assume control do very well. Those that have such nuns don’t have many vocations. Its part of the liberal attempt to force the Church to accept women priests. Problem is that they are losing power today, and vocations are rising fast.

These fools tried to starve us into submission. Don' they understand - the "evil heierarchical male" church has been around for 2000 years??? Do they really think they can bring her down in such a silly cowardly way? It is so nice to see all the good and loyal young priests. We went to confession on saturday at a middle-of-the road parish (not known as heavily orthodox). Two of the three priests were in their 20s. Both were excellent confessors. And EVERY week there are lines of people waiting to recieve this sacrament. Sister Fraulieber and her cohort in the dioceses around the nation need to see that they are merely ensuring their dioceses will be somewhat dead for a few more decades while other diocese finish the job of restoring the Church started by JPII.

57 posted on 11/19/2001 7:47:50 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
The Catholic Church needs to revive the practive of excommunication and interdict, this is disgusting. I fear that as a devout ROMAN Catholic this is only the beginning. I don't know what the other Catholic Freepers think, but I think within 25 years a bunch of Bishops will break with Rome and found an American Catholic Church. no thank you, I will stick with Rome. God Bless
58 posted on 11/19/2001 7:56:36 AM PST by StAthanasiustheGreat
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To: realpatriot71
This isn't a loaded question. I'm genuinly curious. Is it Biblically/theologically based, or more of a tradition.

This ought to be rich!

59 posted on 11/19/2001 7:57:08 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: biblewonk
This ought to be rich!

I gave an answer on post 32. Did it turn out to be as rich as you thought?

60 posted on 11/19/2001 8:01:10 AM PST by JMJ333
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