Posted on 02/08/2023 9:42:05 PM PST by ebb tide
The final documents produced by the synod assembly in Europe underway this week will influence what priorities and themes should be taken up in the Synod of Bishops taking place at the Vatican this fall.
A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe’s synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church.
Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), addressed delegates in the meeting in Prague on Feb. 8.
“The stubborn adherence to the dual anthropology and the confinement of women to the space outside of the ordained ministry tends to drive women, especially young women, out of the Church in the 21st century,” Stetter-Karp said.
Posing a question “to those who do not want to allow change” on the “the women’s question,” she asked: “How do you explain the multiple gifts and vocations of women in the Catholic Church worldwide if the Holy Spirit did not want it? I would like an honest answer to that.”
Stetter-Karp is one of three leaders of Germany’s Synodal Path who are playing an active role in the continental stage of the Church’s ongoing Synod on Synodality as official national delegates sent by Germany.
Thomas Söding, the German lay central committee’s vice president, also spoke to the assembly on Wednesday about why he believes there is a crisis of vocations in Europe.
Söding said: “We are experiencing a crisis of priestly vocations throughout Europe. What does it tell us?”
“I know there are different answers in the room. My conviction: We think too narrowly of the priestly vocation. We think too narrowly of God’s grace. We tie it to sex.
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Whatever women leave because they cannot be ordained could not be Catholics in good standing anyway. They should pray, have a change of heart, and return when they can accept the unchangeable teaching.
Papa Francis is a curious study in small-mindedness.
I’ll grant that he has the toughest job in the world, but that is no excuse for his vulgar behavior.
When I was a young woman, I found it painful that women could not be priests. Then I noticed the fruit of churches ordaining women was abortion.
Women in charge of a church tend to lead to compassion without principle, and we need principle when times are hard.
I am afraid that homosexual priests, even if leading chaste lives, tend the same way.
Then, men tend to exit a group with female leadership, and that may be a problem with men, but it’s also human nature.
My daughters are still offended by a male priesthood, not swayed by my reasoning.
Frankie wants women priests and same sex marriages..He wants to destroy the church as much as he can for his master
Indeed.
Some find his quixotic war against the Latin Mass strange and incomprehensible, but it makes sense in the larger context. He and his minions are plotting total revolution inside the Church (womenpriests, abortion, gay marriage, gay-married clergy, etc)., and they see the Latin Mass crowd as pocket of resistance. Their war on Latin Mass is a sort of “Pearl Harbot” intended as the first stage of a much broader war.
Annnd now we know the FBI thinks “”those”” catholics are radicals and need to be destroyed...
NO IT ISN’T!!! Love of MURDERING BABIES IS!
They are OFFENDED by Priests??? omg.....they need PRAYERS!
Frankie is just like Joey.....they both want to DESTROY what is GOOD and DECENT!
Nobody ever talked about women priests, for example, when French priests were doing missionary work in the wilds of North America in the 17th century — and being martyred with boring regularity in the process.
My mother told me that God gave men the privilege to become priests to make up to them that women were given God's greatest gift: to bring a child into the world.
Feminists of course hate babies. And they hate the family based on the fact male and female he created them.
A provable lie! Go to any Mass any Sunday. Majority women. Why is that?
No, they are offended only that the priesthood is limited to men.
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