Posted on 09/06/2023 1:47:18 PM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, this week issued a pastoral letter stating that the Catholic Church has “no authority whatsoever” to ordain female priests or deacons, a declaration the bishop said was meant to address potential discussions at the upcoming global synod.
The bishop issued the letter as a follow-up to his August pastoral document in which he warned of attempts to “present an alternative to the Gospel of Jesus Christ” and urged Catholics to “remain firmly upon the perennial teachings of the faith.”
In his September missive, Bishop Strickland reiterated that Christ “is the only path to everlasting life” and that “no other path to salvation can be found.” The bishop subsequently warned that some are attempting to “chip away or destroy altogether the Deposit of Faith” of the Catholic Church.
Noting that the ordination of women will “reportedly be a topic of discussion at the upcoming Synod on Synodality,” Bishop 'Strickland said that throughout the centuries the Church has always held that only men can be ordained to the priesthood.
“Sacred Tradition and the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church have affirmed throughout the ages that the Church has no authority whatsoever to ordain women to the priesthood,” the bishop said.
“This cannot be changed because Christ instituted a male priesthood in order to image himself as the bridegroom with the Church as his bride,” he said.
Strickland further cited St. John Paul II, who wrote in his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that the Church cannot “confer priestly ordination on women,” with the pope directing that this conclusion “be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”
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But then along came the apostate, Bergoglio, with his Frankenchurch:
Ping
When they confirm that circles are squares it will be allowed. Wait. Men are women. So I guess anything goes.
If things continue on this path I see the Church splitting in two along with the USA. We just can’t live with these people.
It would seem, therefore, that whoever holds otherwise is not one of the Church's faithful. No?
Does that not mean that holding otherwise is, in fact, HERESY?
You got one right!
“If things continue on this path I see the Church splitting in two along with the USA. We just can’t live with these people.”
Indeed. As a Catholic, I cannot and will not accept a Church that embraces womenpriests, abortion, same-sex marriage, the Rainbow Flag, etc. ... basically all the heretical novelties liberal protestantism has already embraced. But it appears that the Bergolio-led Church of Rome is heading toward exactly that. An unstoppable force heading for an immovable object.
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