These types will be apoplectic about Pope Francis' recent "NO, NO, NO!" concerning ordaining women to Holy Orders and they are seeing red:
Pope Paul VI reiterated during the last year of His Holiness pontificate that women could not be ordained to Holy Orders because Jesus, the founder of the Catholic Church, knowing all things, past, present and future, did not choose women to be apostles (the 12 apostles, the first priests and bishops of the Church).
While that argument is valid, I believe it has more to do with gender dogma that only a man can be a bridegroom and Jesus is the Bridegroom of the Church and in a sacramental way, especially during the Eucharistic Prayer and specifically at the consecration, the ordained priest acts in "Persona Christi" as well as the head of the Church to make clear that Jesus is the High Priest (not priestess) and Bridegroom of the Church which is His bride.
Of course Pope Saint John Paul II raised the all male Holy Orders to the level of the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church, and thus an infallible dogma.
Pope Benedict XVI reinforced this teaching and now Pope Francis has done so throughout his papacy but in a more nuts and bolts sort of way, not clericalizing women.
Nov 23, 2020
Excerpt:
The pontiff brings up the issue of women serving in the church as
part of a six-page reflection on the "leading role" that women have
played during the pandemic. He says that countries with women at the
helm "have on the whole reacted better and more quickly than others,
making decisions swiftly and communicating them with empathy."
The pope's words about women in the church are striking, as they seem
to be the first time the pope has directly addressed critics who say he
has not done enough to promote women to positions of authority.
Francis says he has tried to "create spaces where women can lead, but
in ways that allow them to shape the culture, ensuring they are valued,
respected, and recognized."
The pope says he has also focused on naming women as consultors to
several Vatican congregations, "so that they can influence the Vatican
while preserving their independence from it."
"Changing institutional culture is an organic process which calls for
integrating, without clericalizing, the viewpoints of women," states
the pope.
My Comments: On the parish level, woman are the majority on paid staffs and volunteer organizations. It is a joke to say women do not have roles in decision making. Most Catholic schools have women as principals. Parishes have women as DRE's and CRE's and most of the catechists are women. On diocesan levels, women way out number the men in paid positions.
8 comments:
Father,
Pope John Paul Is did not elevate this teaching of the Church to the level of an infallible teaching of the Ordinary Magisterium, he confirmed it, as it had been such from the beginning.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/concerning-the-teaching-contained-in-ordinatio-sacerdotalis-2133
No one can deny that women seem to be running a lot of parishes these days. Women make the majority of college graduates. Women are winning more and more political offices.
Are we really a better society for it?
Is this better for children?
Are we getting "better" candidates in our elections since women got the right to vote?
(If only men voted, Clinton and Obama would not have won)
All forbidden questions that BEG to be asked.
Fatherlessness had decimated the black community. Motherlessness has decimated society. Feminism isn't Catholic, no matter how forcefully we try to push it and tolerate it.
So Anonymous at 646 wants to go back to "male only" suffrage? Finds it bad that women are winning political office? I guess he wants us all to go back to the June and Ward Cleaver days of the 1950s, as in "Leave it to Beaver." LOL...the train has left the station, and it is not coming back...
Yes, the Lord chose only males when he established the priesthood---or the episcopate. Which was it that He established at the Last Supper?
Before long, Father McDonald will be left with the following posters:
Father Kavanaugh aka Anonymous K and various noms de plume;
Anonymous 2 of the Faculty Lounge; and
Mark Thomas, the Papalotor!
We have the first woman vice president who is an abortion monger. That should answer the question of are we really a better society for it.
NOT.
I only wish we COULD go back to a June Cleaver model of motherhood. It will probably take a major catastrophe to bring us back there, but then again, it's looking more and more like we are creating a world that will enable such a catastrophe.
And I stand by my words. Women shouldn't vote. Men vote with their rational minds. Women vote with their emotions.
O my! I liked June, but I am sure she voted, pearls and all.
Sorry Anonymous, we don’t have any such vice president.
The states have not certified and The Electoral College has not cast a single vote.
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
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