Posted on 04/15/2010 8:02:58 AM PDT by markomalley
On Sunday, April 11, while preaching a sermon on the power of fear, I was referring to the fear that paralyzed the apostles, locking them in a room, leaving only John and the women at the foot of the cross. I stated that is why I believe women ought to be able to be ordained, as well as priests ought to be able to get married.
While this is my personal opinion, I do respect and follow the Catholic Church teachings and I am sorry I failed to do this.
If he is so sorry, and follows the teaching of the Catholic church; why does he open his trap in public like that then? He is a liar, flat out. The longer the Catholic Church poo-poo’s this guy the longer they lose credibility.
Why can’t he just resign?
This statement is a contradiction. If he really respected and followed the teachings of the Church, he wouldn't have a personal opinion of that nature.
Notice he doesn't say that he believes in the teachings of the Church, specifically the teachings that his "personal opinion" is the opposite of. He only "respects" and "follows" them.
What a spinner and a liar.
He still got his message out, mission accomplished. Scandal given, Church teaching blurred, liberal Catholics happy, and the father gets to take a breather until the next time he wants to open his yap.
Freegards
A believing Catholic does not have his “personal opinion” as opposed to the teaching of the Church.
In this “apology,” Pfleger has simply stated that he believes the Church’s teaching is error, and that his own opinion is the truth.
BTW: What kind of illiterate says “I accept the Catholic Church teachings...”?
He’s too proud or arrogant to do that. He’s going to have to be purged, and I have the sad feeling that he will lead many more astray before and if that ever happens.
How does the fear he describes lead to the conclusion that we out to have female priest and allow priests to marry. I fail to see how he connects those dots.
You can’t unring a bell. Cardinal George should remove him pronto.
Regards,
why do members of an organized religion sit in pews week after week when they really don’t practice what is teached?
About celibacy, sure.
About the "ordination" of women, sorry, no chance. Ordinatio Sacerdotalis taught infallibly that the Church has no authority to ordain women, and in fact was only reiterating what was known infallibly before.
That's why Bishop Olmsted can get away with excommunicating a priest who advocated it, as he did last year.
Celibacy for clergy is a discipline. The necessity that a priest be a male is not a discipline, but is an unchangeable dogma, infallibly taught, universally practiced. It was formally, explicitly affirmed as infallibly taught by the Church by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
Ae come on - I am not infavor of the ordination of women, and I agree with JPII on this matter but it is hardly unchangable infallible dogma. Everytime the pope opens his mouth infallible dogma does not come out.
I never said that everything a Pope says is infallible. No well-informed Catholic thinks that.
When said Pope SAYS he is defining something infallibly, and that it is unchangeable, then it is. And JPII did, and Ratzinger immediately afterward reaffirmed that JPII had intended to teach it infallibly.
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