Posted on 10/29/2019 11:41:03 AM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has advocated from the Amazon Synod in Rome for the appointment of women as cardinals of the Church.
Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), told Argentinian paper La Nación before the vote on the Synod final document that he insisted in Synod meetings that “it would be good if there were some women cardinals if there are women deacons”.
“Because I think that when one chooses the pope, women should also be involved”, the cardinal explained.
The Amazon Synod wrapped up Sunday with a call in its final document for more official church roles for women, though it stopped short of calling for women to be ordained immediately as deacons.
Speaking off-the-cuff after the vote on the final document, the Pope admitted the Synod text “falls short” on the role of women in the Church.
“I would just like to underline this: that we have not yet realized what women mean in the Church”, Francis added.
He explained that in response to the Synod push for more responsibility for women in the Church, he would “reconvene” or “perhaps open… with new members” the Commission he set up in 2016 to study the role and ministry of women deacons in the early Church.
Ping
We are witnessing the end of the church as we know it under this Pope.
I read a man’s opinion once that, if women take over leadership in Church, men back off and leave it to them. They stop going to church. it becomes a girl thing. The writer was saying that there have to be some things that only men can do, or they will slip away.
Does he have a point?
Yes.
I thought that it was church doctrine that women could not be ordained, and that the church cannot change that doctrine.
You’ll be sorry if you do!
He has a point. It is already happening a bit in Catholic churches where most of the non ordained jobs go to women. In many churches altar girls cuts the number of boys willing to serve at the altar. It has done that at mine. It is poorly patched by have alternating Sundays boys-girls-boys-girls.
Mrs Don-o clarified to me that deacons are not considered laity in the Roman Catholic church.
At the time, I did wonder if the end game was a female/lesbian pope. Looks like my whisky thinking was correct.
I have seen it.
Once women start to take visible leadership roles, men today tend to head to the exits.
To much risk, to little reward.
Heck, I fully expect the remnant of the Boy Scouts to be mostly women in 20 years.
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