Posted on 12/04/2012 12:16:47 PM PST by marshmallow
WASHINGTON — An independent Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States called Monday for a campaign to reverse the Vatican's refusal to allow women to become priests.
"Barring women from ordination to the priesthood is an injustice that cannot be allowed to stand," the National Catholic Reporter said, waving a red flag in front of the Vatican over one of its most strongly held teachings.
The call to the priesthood "is a gift from God," it said, and excluding women from responding to that call "has no strong basis in Scripture or any other compelling rationale."
With bishops and theologians on record as opposing women's ordination, the Missouri-based biweekly -- a respected voice of the Church's reformist wing -- said it now fell upon the faith's rank and file to press for change.
"We must speak up in every forum available to us: in parish council meetings, faith-sharing groups, diocesan convocations and academic seminars," it said. "We should write letters to our bishops, to the editors of our local papers and television news channels."
There was no immediate reaction from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which toes a conservative line on other hot-button issues such as abortion, contraception and gay marriage.
The United States has the largest Catholic population of any rich country, with a quarter of its 310 million people belonging to the faith -- a proportion sustained by Latino immigration.
The editorial was prompted by last month's excommunication and expulsion of Father Roy Bourgeois from the Maryknoll order for his role in a women's ordination ceremony in Kentucky in 2008.
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You need to get a "Queen James Version" ...
You wrote:
“Conjugal??? Some of your popes were queers...Some of them had offspring while being married...Some of them had children out of wedlock...”
None of which changes anything I said. I guess, just as I expected, you really can’t offer an argument.
“These guys are your Magisterium...And then these guys warn Catholics not to go outside of Catholic instruction to learn their history...”
Uh, no. Apparently you imagine quite a bit. I’m a Church historian, and between the two of us, I’m the only one making any sense. You can’t even seem to string together a few coherent thoughts.
this “catholic” newspaper has been promoting the liberal agenda for at least twenty years...and is the favorite of all the wimenpriest and gay priest types. So what else is new? Or did someone just notice it?
actually, if all your priests are old, it might be because the “lavender seminaries” chased away all the good men.
The answer is not wimen priests but holy priests.
As for married men: This is a church law that can be changed tomorrow, and indeed married clergy are common in Eastern catholic churches. But in case you didn’t notice, the same folks who insist on married men also promote the rest of the PC agenda: Gay marriage, women priests, abortion etc.
Indeed, the number of openly gay clergy in liberal protestant churches shows that it isn’t a catholic problem: it’s just ignore in these churches.
That alone should make you wonder.
Do you seriously believe that if there were married priests with children they would not lobby the Vatican for some physical or financial assets to provide for their heirs?
Priests live and work as and on church property until they die quit or get defrocked leaving behind nothing...this would not be possible without the celibacy rule.
But hey, it's how the RCC conducts business and I ain't one to criticize how legitimate corporations act.
There are married priests. Where do you get the erroneous notion that Catholic priests can't do inheritances, whether they're married or not?
Catholics believe that Sacred Scripture is authoritative. Can you point to a post by a Catholic where they say it is not?
The fact is, all the popes were/are sinners and there were some who were not celibate. You'd think non-Catholics would be singing their praises for breaking their vows. It was a Protestant who advised to "sin boldly". Those popes who sinned boldly should make Protestants proud.
Is history really history if it is not real??? You may want to consider changing your vocation...I can see you may have a future working at the Comedy Club...
You wrote:
“Is history really history if it is not real???”
The problem is that your ignorance of history is so well known here that you only make yourself look foolish whenever you attempt to discuss it.
“You may want to consider changing your vocation...I can see you may have a future working at the Comedy Club...”
I probably could stand-up if that was what I was interested in, but I’ll stick with Church History. After all that allows me the opportunity of helping anti-Catholic bigots such like you embarrass yourself here at FR almost daily.
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