Posted on 12/13/2023 12:08:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Controversial Pope Francis, whose left-wing leanings are alarming to more traditional and conservative Catholics, recently received members of the International Theological Commission (ITC) at the Vatican, where he sparked a new controversy by informing the gathered theologians that the Catholic Church is “female” and needs to be “demasculinized.”
The ITC was established by Pope Paul VI within the then-Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1969 to assist the Vatican in examining crucial doctrinal issues. It consists at any given time of 30 theologians who serve a five-year term on the Commission. Women have served on the panel since 2004, but never more than two at a time until 2014 when Pope Francis named a record five women to the ITC. In the current membership of the Commission, five again are women.
Among the Pope’s comments to the theologians was a condemnation of the scarcity of women among them. “We must progress on this!” Francis passionately declared. “Women have a different capacity for theological reflection than we men. At the next meeting of the [Council of Cardinals], we will reflect on the female dimension of the Church.”
Fair enough so far. Women often do have a different capacity for theological reflection – reading the great female mystics in history from Hildegard von Bingen to Julian of Norwich to Teresa of Avila demonstrates that – and there is room for debate in the Church about the ministerial role of women. But then the Pope went off the rails. “The Church is female,” he stated, “and if we do not understand what a woman is, what the theology of a woman is, we will never understand what the Church is.”
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This guy is a nut-job.
That’s been going on for a while, and it’s incredibly destructive. Part of the ‘traditionalist’ movement is ‘re-masculinizing’ the Church ... and it’s thriving.
Therefore, Bergoglio hates it.
Oh
For
Christ’s
Sake
(Literally)
Just admit
your a damned
dirt worshiping
pagan !!!
Just quit pretending youre a Christian.
Well, of course. Vow of celibacy and all that. He has no idea of what he’s missing. Pretty soon he’ll have castrati singing in the choir again.
Leave Rome and come home to the Orthodox Church.
The Free Masons and their “Vatican” councils have ruined the
Latin Church!
Methinks “De-pope-ing the church” might prove more beneficial than Demasculizing it, for this pretend pope, at least.
“Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?”
Sorry Frankie. The church is made up of saints, not fairies.
Francis is the least Catholic pontiff ever.
Henry II approves of this message.
After all, the Church is the Bride of Christ and gay “marriage” is still not allowed by the Church. He appears to be taking things too literally.
It’s always surprising to me that so many institutions that want to remain relevant think they’ll do it by latching on to very temporal ‘thought movements’ - as if those will hold sway forever. Instead of sticking to enduring human symbols and values that helped make them great, they throw away their deepest and most iconic meanings on this flimsy stuff.
Marxist Pope.
De-politicize the Church.
De-Satanize the Church.
Re-Sanctify the Church to Christ and its souls. (when was the last time the Pope mentioned Him and them?).
Draw on prior Doctrine for guidance, not the daily news.
Or as a certain German priest in the 16th century named Martin Luther stated criticized clerical celibacy in Luther's usual crude manner: "Nature never lets up, we are all driven to the secret sin. To say it crudely but honestly, if it doesn't go into a woman, it goes into your shirt."
The Feminization(sp) of the Church would truly spell her doom. I do not mean a denial of her feminine aspects but a hostility to her masculine aspects and the rise of pagan matriarchy. That pagan matriarchy is cruel and spiteful. Ruled by emotion acting, on impulse. Justifying all manner of sin in the cause of being “kind”. Not minding the damnation that follows. Such matriarchy thrives on lies.
The female saints of the Church had both feminine and masculine virtues. Most all they loved Truth and did not shy away from yielding it. How so many miss this is a puzzle to me.
Anti pope, possible false prophet, tool of Satan. No one should ever refer to this evil pos as Pope.
The old talking mule is suffering from the Bidenosis disease. Satan has entered his brain and is doing the Mexican Hat Dance.
To my Catholic friends its time to re-open the papal palace in Avignon France!
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