Vatican Consultant ‘Absolutely’ in Favour of Women Priests

The Irish Times ^ | 11/6/14 | Paddy Agnew

[marshmallow]

Excluding women ‘unacceptable’ says priest due to report to pontifical council

Spanish priest Fr Pablo d’Ors, a consultant to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, yesterday said he was “absolutely” in favour of opening up the priesthood to women.

Speaking in a candid tone that appears to take its cue from the frank debate at the recent Synod of Bishops, Fr d’Ors told Italian daily La Repubblica: “Am I in favour [of the ordination of women]? Absolutely, and I am not the only one. The reasoning which claims that women cannot become priests because Jesus was a man and because he chose only men [as his apostles] is very weak. That is a cultural consideration not a metaphysical one.”

Were it not for the fact that Fr D’Ors is one of 30 consultants due to report to a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Culture (PCC) in February, his comments might have little significance. However, the PCC’s meeting in the Vatican will be focussed on the role of women in the Catholic Church today.

Senior Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi told The Irish Times yesterday that he could not comment on Fr d’Ors’ remarks. He said he did not know the Spanish priest, adding that although Fr d’Ors may indeed have some function to perform for the PCC, he certainly was not speaking on behalf of the Vatican on this occasion.

[Zionist Conspirator]

For 2000 years the Church only ordained viri = “men”, and insisted the ordination of women was impossible. Not just Catholics, but all the ancient churches—Orthodox, Monophysite, etc.

You ordain women now, you are admitting that the Church was dead wrong for 2000 years.

Now you tell me exactly how you do that without saying the Church wasn’t wrong on any number of other things.

That didn't stop every last one of those churches changing their minds about Biblical inerrancy, Genesis, evolution, etc. Yet were I to say that by doing these things they had already shown that their churches are open to negotiation on everything else I'm sure I would be poo-pooed.

Just keep telling yourselves that none of that matters.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Just keep telling yourselves that none of that matters.” <<

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Matthew 7:23 addresses that issue with clarity.

[Claud]

Nobody changed their minds ZC. I will grant you that too many prelates have gone wobbly on inerrancy. But no one has ever put forward the final interpretation of Genesis which de facto excludes all else. It was a complicated question then and is still complicated now.

Goodness, I wouldn’t think anyone so familiar with the Talmud would be so put off by competing schools of thought wrangling over the precise historical/scientific implications of a passage. What you see as “changing their minds” I see as “trying to come to grips with the true meaning of the passage”.

[editor-surveyor]

Hearing the word spoken, and prayer are the only way of “coming to grips” with the true meaning.

“Prelates” haven’t the slightest clue!
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[Salvation]

Won’t happen.

[stonehouse01]

“As a conservative Catholic..no problem with the idea of woman priests...”

This is not a conservative position, actually. The main reason for no women priests is that they are prohibited in Scripture:

St. Paul to Timothy Chapter 2 verses 12 - 15 pretty much sum it up.