Lutheran Ping!
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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The anti-Pope needs to take off the mask—and show us that he is a Reptilian alien.
And a heretic.
Indeed.
All commies are nuts.
Choose who you will serve.
Step down, imPopestor!
Franky has it backwards.
The church has become feminized.
“Mainline” Protestant churches have already done exactly that.
It seems to me that the pope should at least believe in God.
Christ allowed himself to be tortured to death to save us. He is the ultimate masculine figure in the universe.
Bergolio needs to repent.
This is what you get when you select a Communist instead of a Roman Catholic to be your church’s leader!
“he sparked a new controversy by informing the gathered theologians that the Catholic Church is “female” and needs to be “demasculinized”.
Say what now? Instead of praying the “Our Father” is it now the “Our Mother”?
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