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To: NYer; PasorBob; Grut
Two observations from a Catholic convert (former Episcopalian), one theoretical and one practical:

1. If Christ did not see fit to ordain His Blessed Mother, who of all women would seem the most worthy, then it is clear that He made a conscious choice not to do so.

2. My former Episcopal parish was the 'training parish' for the diocese, so that all new ordinands went through a shakedown cruise in the parish. I was a parishioner for almost 30 years, from 1977 until General Convention 2003. In that time, all but one of the women were hopeless -- they gained ordination for all the wrong reasons: to prove a point as to "equality", to promote their radical feminist or lesbian agenda, or to exorcise their own personal demons (several were frankly unstable). I saw only ONE female ordinand who was capable of serving with any facility as a parish priest, because she seemed to have actually felt a call to serve God in His church. But as sensible as she was she felt constrained to support the ordination of homosexuals (which I hear through the grapevine was a quid pro quo and a plan from the beginning.)

So women are not only by and large incapable of doing the job, they also would be the thin end of the wedge by which all sorts of liberal social activism (homosexuals, political action, etc.) would be used to bring down the Catholic Church.

The Church has the Awful Warning of the Episcopalians right in front of her eyes. I don't think the Holy Father wants any of what these foolish virgins are selling.

57 posted on 12/17/2008 5:16:50 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary -- Recess Appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
The Church has the Awful Warning of the Episcopalians right in front of her eyes. I don't think the Holy Father wants any of what these foolish virgins are selling.

Thse women are power-hungry. I discovered that people with liberal views promote a sort of soft tyranny. They don't"excommunicate," they EXCLUDE , by denying people with differing fews from having a role. That's why so many university faculties have only the token conservatives.

76 posted on 12/17/2008 10:32:46 PM PST by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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