Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: morphing libertarian
Spare me the "it's inevitable". One is a bad idea and the other is impossible.

As for novelty of married priests I don’t believe this is the first time in church history and they let married priests in all the time.

Yes, married men being ordained priests was not unheard of. However, those priests were to maintain CONTINENCE. Early on, it became more common for married priests in the West to send their wives to monasteries. In the East, the insistence on continence eventually was relaxed.

Priests were never allowed to marry (when it happened it was an anomaly and still invalid). To allow them to marry would be a novelty.

In either case, large numbers of married priests present an interesting problem in these United States: paying them. If you think they're "inevitable", please start tithing at least 10% RIGHT NOW.

There is no canonical or logical reason a woman cannot be priest.

You can continue asserting it, but it is simply not true. The canonical argument is the simplest: it is forbidden. Can. 1024 A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly.

But you might still argue "but that can be changed", so I am posting some resources for you to read. (Spoiler alert: as part of Divine Law, it can't be changed)

Paul VI: Inter Insignores (it is easily found online)

John Paul II: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis

For your "logical" arguments from Scripture and Reason, Peter Kreeft gave a good talk over 20 years ago:

I believe this is the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgou9QDR4KM

And a transcript of the same.

The attempted ordination of a woman is an abomination and a mockery of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

28 posted on 12/01/2017 8:43:13 PM PST by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies ]


To: GCC Catholic

Yes, married men being ordained priests was not unheard of.

Gee I thought it was novelty and unheard of and now married priests have been let in by two modern pope. So your first post was disingenuous. did you think I would be absent of church history?

I am finished on this topic. You are defending the indefensible and explaining the inexplicable. Even the church’s actions, letting in married priests, prove you to be wrong. There is no reason for God to not want women to be priests. He made them as smart as men and more nurturing and loving, characteristics of Christ. It is a church run by men who sustain their power that keeps women from being ordained for no logical reason. God is both a mystery and logical. look at the universe.

You can wager the way you want. were I to live the next 100 years, I would bet my deed on women priests. Good night.


29 posted on 12/01/2017 8:54:37 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson