Posted on 06/01/2021 5:13:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis, in another step towards greater equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday changed its law to formally codify their roles as altar servers, distributors of communion and readers at liturgies.
The pope's decree formalised practices already common in many countries. But the change in the Code of Canon Law means conservative bishops will not be able to block women in their dioceses from taking those roles.
The Vatican stressed that the roles were "essentially distinct from the ordained ministry", and so not an automatic precursor to women one day being allowed to become priests.
"This codifies that women are equal to men in these roles and is big because in some cultures women are still considered unclean and cannot be near the sacred," said Phyllis Zagano, a religion professor at Hofstra University in New York State and past member of a papal commission on women deacons.
In the decree, called "Spiritus Domini" (The Spirit of the Lord), Francis said he had acted after theological reflection.
In an accompanying letter, he said he wanted to bring "stability, public recognition" to women already serving in the roles.
“This shift brings the institutional Church in alignment with the pastoral realities around the world," said Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, which campaigns for the female priesthood.
Last August, the pope appointed six women to senior roles in the council that oversees Vatican finances.
He has also appointed women to the posts of deputy foreign minister, director of the Vatican Museums, deputy head of the Vatican Press Office, and councillor of the Synod of Bishops.
He has also set up commissions to study the history of women deacons in the early centuries of the Catholic Church, responding to calls by women that they are allowed to take up the role today.
Deacons, like priests, are ordained ministers, and as in the priesthood, must be men in today's Church. They may not celebrate Mass, but they may preach, teach in the name of the Church, baptise and conduct wedding, wake and funeral services and even run a parish.
Ping
Schism.
Eve is moved in.
Again.
This latest innovation by Bergoglio may be “of a piece” with the looming rollback of Summorum Pontificum. In the traditional Latin Mass, we don’t have lay lectors or extraordinary eucharistic ministers, male or female, so there’s obviously less room at TLM for women so inclined to have a starring role. And I’ve never seen altar girls at a TLM, so I assume it’s verboten though I’m not sure if that’s informal custom or a formal rule.
More lunacy from the Poop!
Pay a visit to a busy maternity ward. The role of women should immediately become apparent.
If it doesn’t, well, here’s your sign.
Never seen one.
No lay person, man or woman, has a right to perform any liturgical ministry.
Come to granny for the cracker. I hope the next Pope isn’t a scourge on the Church.
I wonder how long before there are women priests and male nuns. It’s coming.
That’s the big dream of ImPopester Bergoglio and his ilk.
No females on the altar.
“What’s a busy maternity ward? Never seen one.”
Did you read about that mouse study where they gave mice a perfect utopia? The mouse population shot up, as one would expect, but then, for unknown reasons, and before the utopia was crowded or short on food, the mouse population plummeted to...you ready? Zero.
The study was replicated several times, and always produced the population collapse.
If I were single instead of married, and 25 instead of 70, in Japan I could produce five or ten illegitimate babies per year. If I got on a hot streak, maybe even 30 per year, until somebody killed me. (N.B., not saying that I would, just that I could, and if I could, lots of guys could.)
Young Japanese are not doing that. Seems like they have no interest in each other, and certainly not in babies. The government is even paying people to have babies, but it seems there aren’t many takers.
They had a program that allowed farmers to hop over to the Philippines and bring back a wife with minimal red tape. That didn’t work as well as they hoped, either.
When I was young, I measured the hotness of Japanese girls on the Clydesdale scale: as in how many Clydesdales would be required to keep me away from her. Young Japanese men would rather play video games than to stalk the streets of Tokyo looking for a woman.
I don’t get it, unless feminism has made Japanese women as toxic as American feminists.
I will now seriously consider converting to some form of Orthodoxy.
It’s not necessarily feminism, it is mega-soi among the men.
“It’s not necessarily feminism, it is mega-soi among the men.”
Some chicken meat from a Japanese butcher shop was tested for dioxin.
The numbers were unbelievable.
While we were sitting around wondering what to do with this information, the US State Department rode in and told us *exactly* how thoroughly we were to shut up.
Maybe that, or some other pollutant(s), have something to do with low sex drive.
Or maybe there’s something else we haven’t figured out yet. Something like those mouse experiments.
From what I have read in men’s media it is worse for men in Japan than the US. You won’t find that in the MSM.
“distributors of communion”
The last time I read the catechism this wasn’t even included; it is a fabrication so lay people can “play priest” and feel involved.
An “extraordinary minister of the Eucharist” receives a one-time dispensation to handle the Eucharist in an emergency situation (before battle, for example) - and that dispensation must be renewed to do it again.
Thank goodness for Rome’s Magisterium. Keeps everything original and protects the churches teachings from radical change, such as those suggested by an obscure Augustinian monk 500 years ago.
My theory is environmental pollution from toxic substances like birth control pills has reduced the male sex drive to zero.
Seems like there’s a lot of porn-viewing going on.
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