Posted on 02/22/2023 7:14:22 PM PST by marshmallow
'There are plenty of approaches in the New Testament with which to justify the opening of holy orders to women.'
(LifeSiteNews) — A notoriously pro-LGBT German bishop has recently advocated for the “ordination” of women and even said that he can one day imagine female “bishops.”
In an interview published this week by German magazine Christ & Welt, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf, together with female lay theologian Dorothea Sattler, said that he “could very well imagine a Bishop Sattler if this were well-regulated by the universal church.”
“There are plenty of approaches in the New Testament with which to justify the opening of holy orders to women,” Kohlgraf said.
“When I look at the New Testament, there is the witnessing of the resurrection,” he stated. “Mary Magdalene, for example, whom even Pope Francis refers to as an apostle, she appears as the first witness of the resurrection before the disciples. This trace should be followed. An argument [that could be made] is the Pauline thought: ‘There is no longer male and female, you are all one in Christ.’ And there are figurative speeches in the New Testament of the body [of Christ] that are not defined in terms of gender.”
The German prelate then stated that the arguments for the exclusively male priesthood from the apostolic tradition (all 12 apostles were men) and from the image of Christ as the bridegroom “can be quickly undermined.” He asserted that “[i]n the first decades of the Church, not only men exercised offices and ministries.”
“We prevent the proclamation of the Risen Lord, by becoming entrenched in the question of women [ordinations],” Kohlgraf said. “The lack of gender justice blocks the way to the core of our message.”
Contrary to Kohlgraf’s assertions, however, the Catholic Magisterium has always held that the fact that Jesus.......
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Frankenchurch Ping
Heresy most foul, as in the best it is
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
The Bee regularly mocks these idiots — self-appointed scholars of the OT/NT
You cannot ignore one part of the bible in favor of another, all heretics do it though.
Father - Son, gender is quite defined
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
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