Posted on 08/31/2024 6:36:20 PM PDT by ebb tide
A Catholic college in Pennsylvania allowed a group of Anglicans, including women “priests,” to celebrate an “Anglican Eucharist” inside a historic basilica.
Back in June, St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, permitted the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to hold on campus its 2024 Provincial Assembly, which included “Eucharistic” services inside St. Vincent Basilica.
Hundreds of Anglican clergy and laity from across the globe, including female “priests” and “deacons,” gathered at the school that is home to the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States. The event was held from June 25-28 and included liturgy, prayer, talks, and the election of their new “archbishop,” according to the assembly’s schedule of events.
Throughout the assembly, “Anglican Eucharists” were celebrated inside the student chapel, campus gymnasium, and, most glaringly, in St. Vincent Basilica. Impressively clear photos from the June 26 “Eucharist” held in the basilica – which can be viewed by clicking here – show female Anglican “priests” processing into the church, carrying the Gospel, and celebrating the liturgy with their male counterparts.
The Catholic Church teaches that it is impossible for women to validly receive the sacrament of holy orders. The Church also teaches that Anglicans and other “ecclesial communities derived from the Reformation” do not have valid holy orders because of broken apostolic succession, and therefore they do not confect a valid Eucharist.
While the ACNA extensively advertised the assembly, St. Vincent College and the Diocese of Greensburg did not mention it on their websites. A spokesman for the Diocese of Greensburg told LifeSiteNews that Bishop Larry Kulick had nothing to do with the event. LifeSiteNews also reached out to St. Vincent College for comment by phone and email, but they have not responded as of publication.
READ: Female Anglican ‘bishop’ addresses Pope Francis and cardinal advisers on ‘role of women in Church’
‘Anglican Eucharist’ service inside the Catholic St. Vincent Basilica (Facebook / Archbishop Foley Beach)
In other parts of the assembly, the female “Rev.” Sue Currie led the laity in “an invitation to pray with Jesus,” and the ACNA held a conclave to elect a new “archbishop,” Steve Wood, from the basilica crypt. Unlike his predecessor, Wood supports women’s “ordination.”
The ACNA is a splinter group that separated from the mainstream Anglican Communion in 2009 in protest of its tolerance of homosexual “marriage” and female “bishops.” The ACNA, however, leaves the question of ordaining women as “priests” and “deacons” up to the discretion of each diocese.
This year’s assembly was not the first time the college allowed the ACNA to use its campus for the event. The 2014 Provincial Assembly was also held at St. Vincent, and video from that year’s event shows female “priests” celebrating the “closing Eucharist.” At that time, then-Archbishop Robert Duncan credited his friendship with then-Archabbot Douglas Nowicki for being allowed to use the campus for that year’s assembly. St. Vincent Basilica also appears on the heretical New Ways Ministry’s list of “LGBTQ-friendly” parishes.
The assembly occurred just months after Pope Francis allowed the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby to say “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew in Rome. The Pontiff himself led an ecumenical Vespers service along with Welby that same month in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
In February, Francis also invited a female Anglican “bishop” to address him and the Council of Cardinals during their discussions on “the role of women in the Church,” sparking concern about the Pope’s possible intention to allow women to be “ordained” in the future.
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Progressives want women priests so bad they will do anything to achieve that end.... WHY????? In my opinion, they feel women will be more comfortable when a female priest says God is okay with butchering your baby or embracing your sin........
To prove my point ,how many “”women”” priests are prolife???
For Catholics, this is wrong. To allow a simulated Eucharist in a Catholic basilica is sacrilege. A Mass of Reparation needs to be said there and an apology needs to be issued to the Catholic laity who were forced to pay for this with their own contributions. Unless the Abbot made money by selling the house of God…
Squirming in, just like the muzzies do.
Paul was an APOSTLE who describes himself saying, "I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. Note he proclaims himself appointed to be a TRUE TEACHER.
Paul then says this: "I am not lying about anything. Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension. Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God. A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression." - 1 Tim 2: 7-14
Bottom line: The spirit of feminism has invaded Christianity. When a woman is led by the spirit of feminism she will contest and rebel against God's purpose for her.
Another insight into feminism is found in this excerpt from https://www.gotquestions.org/desire-husband-rule.html:
"As God pronounces judgment on Eve for her part of the transgression in Eden, He says, “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). This verse causes some puzzlement. It would seem that a woman desiring her husband would be a good thing, and not a curse. The Hebrew phrase in question does not include a verb and is literally translated “toward your husband your desire.” Since this judgment is predictive, the future tense verb “will be” is added for clarity: “Your desire will be for your husband.” The most basic and straightforward understanding of this verse is that woman and man would now have ongoing conflict. In contrast to the ideal conditions in the Garden of Eden and the harmony between Adam and Eve, their relationship, from that point on, would include a power struggle. The NLT translation makes it more evident: “You will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” God’s pronouncement of this curse on the first couple signals a change in the marriage dynamic. Sin had wrought discord. The battle of the sexes had begun. Both man and woman would now seek the upper hand in marriage. The man who was to lovingly care for and nurture his wife would now seek to rule her, and the wife would desire to wrest control from her husband.
. If a woman is truly in Christ, she will not strive with her husband or man but she'll be content in the role God intended for her.
From an Upstate NY enemedia outlet...
Catholic diocese sues US gov't, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave
Get a load of the numbers...
...For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States...
Bold is mine.
I’m thought that place looked familiar! St Vincent is just a few miles away from where I attend the TLM. I am shocked and dismayed about this news!
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