A terse summary from the Amazon on the role of women. Please note the Vatican heading:
A female lay ministry
Widespread violence against women must be confronted. Some proposed establishing a female lay ministry for evangelization. It is necessary to promote a greater active participation of women in the life of the Church, in a “Samaritan” perspective.My comments:
In the Name of God and all that is Holy! Haven't we had women in some of the most powerful servant roles in the Church for the past 2000 years???????
We call them nuns and sisters. Some of monastic others work in the world. Prior to Vatican II there were phenomenal numbers of these women who, my friends, are not clergy, they are lay women!
Keep in mind, too, that all deacons, priests and bishops are lay people who wanted to serve the Church as ordained clergy. We don't come from Mars dammit!
What have Women Religious done?
Started schools and universities, charitable organizations and hospitals and hospices.
They got laymen and women active in the parishes where they are or were.
And in terms of women, in my 40 years as a priest, women have places of ministry as Religious Education Coordinators/Directors, pastoral assistants, principals, teachers and a whole host of volunteer ministries that keep parishes going.
Men, including this priest, are in the minority in terms of woman having so many paid and volunteer roles in parishes.
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But to modern "liberals" the valuable contributions of these religious women mean nothing because they are not priests.
Aha! I detect a slight bit of papal opposition in this post! You know what that could mean.
I trust a woman to raise my children while I'm at work, which includes instructing them in the faith when I'm not there. When they're old enough, they'll be taught by Franciscan Sisters (associated with the SSPX) at our chapel's school.
It's impossible to imagine women having a more important ministry than they already have -- when it is properly lived, that is.
Amen
Marc,
I echo your statements. Unfortunately, the sisters that taught me (very well I might add) have morphed into a bunch of aging, left-wing loons, their numbers a fraction of what they were in 1965. They have not received a single vocation to their order in years. They drank the Vatican Disaster II Kool-Aid and are now living with the consequences. I pity the orthodox ones who had no option but to remain.
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