Posted on 11/28/2022 4:48:40 PM PST by MurphsLaw
In an interview published in America Magazine today, Pope Francis unequivocally stated that women cannot be ordained as priests but emphasized the important role they have to play in the life of the Church.
“Many women feel pain because they cannot be ordained priests. What would you say to a woman who is already serving in the life of the Church but who still feels called to be a priest?” asked Kerry Webber, executive editor of the monthly magazine published by the Jesuits of the United States.
The Holy Father was unequivocal on the question of the ordination of women priests:
“And why can a woman not enter ordained ministry? It is because the Petrine principle has no place for that,” the pope said.
“The ministerial dimension, we can say, is that of the Petrine church. I am using a category of theologians. The Petrine principle is that of ministry,” the Holy Father said.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
The dignity of women, he said, reflected the spousal nature of the Church, which he called the “Marian principle.”
“The way is not only [ordained] ministry. The Church is woman. The Church is a spouse. We have not developed a theology of women that reflects this,” Pope Francis said.
Women do not want to become nuns. I do not understand why bother to become priests?
I feel "pain" that I can't be a movie star. Where's my sympathy?
Equality?
Women are already equal.
Women who want to become priests aren’t seeking to serve, they’re status seekers.
They don’t really want to be priests either. They just want to play dress up and make a big deal about how they got into a position where they were normally blocked.
If they feel like they are being called to religious life they can become Nuns. Maybe they think Nuns aren’t important enough for them which is pretty egotistical, plus an old nun created a long running Catholic television station EWTN so its not like she wasn’t important.
I guess frankie got tired of stringing along his progressive groupies and finally told the truth.....
You are also not to pray to Mary or dead saints. There is also only one holy father and the pope ain’t it
I grew up at exactly the time to be on the battlefield of the the ERA, feminists like Betty Friedan and Roe v. Wade.
When women sued to demand men’s jobs in all fields I noticed men were always the ones down in a dirt ditch-—for replacing pipes, laying cable, fixing water mains, building the margins of roads and anything else. Now in 2022 the same is always true, as far as I have seen.
Unspoken——women are too smart to force men out of their jobs digging ditches.
America magazine is controlled by woke homosexuals.
I'm not in the least surprised that you support womyn "priests".
Thinking ML was just brainstorming, ET.
Not that he agreed with the notion
Could be wrong, YMMV.
Always a party pooper...
Since when does a Catholic use “equality” when referring to the possibility of womyn “priests”?
It sounds like you’re supporting the concept. And why is Bergoglio still open to womyn “dekeons”? “Equality”, perhaps?
JP II used “equality” in his badly mistaken allowance of altar chicks.
And “No”; the FSSP does not have altar chicks!
How about lying snake?
Francis creates new women deacons commission, naming entirely different membership
I’m not attacking the Church.
I’m questioning your excuse of “equality” in reference to male vs female priests.
Stop making stuff up.
P.S. You are not the Church; so stop equating a critique of you as an attack on the Church.
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