Posted on 04/26/2005 10:40:51 PM PDT by Cato1
I think it is generally unfair to characterize opposing viewpoints by their most extreme adherents or the most absurd end of their spectrum. Therefore, the following should be read in jest, even though the authors are quite serious.
This is from the "Open Conclave" movement of feminists called Woman Church Convergence
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Press Release of Women-Church Convergence April 19, 2005
Women-Church Announces Cyberspace Forum on Women’s Equality; Challenges Pope Benedict XVI to Join the Discussion
Contact: Bridget Mary Meehan 703-671-1972 703-283-2929 sofiabmm@aol.com Mary E. Hunt 301-589-2509 240-472-4587 mhunt@hers.com
Women-Church Convergence announces a cyberspace forum for a global conversation on issues, reforms and actions needed to shape the Catholic Church into a “discipleship of equals” in the twenty-first century www.women-churchconvergence.org.
Women-Church co-coordinator Bridget Mary Meehan asserted, “We are providing a forum for feminist voices around the world to join together in the work for Gospel equality and justice in our church and world. Women-Church Convergence invites Pope Benedict XVI to join in this dialogue.” Spurred by the success of the Women-Church on-line “Open Conclave” that facilitated the exchange of opinions among thousands of people while the cardinals sat in a locked room, feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt noted, “The Convergence sees this next step as modeling a new, 21st century way to be church where all are welcome.”
Women-Church Convergence is alarmed at the election of Pope Benedict XVI. We believe that the Spirit of God acts through the people of God and this selection reflects a reactionary-right-wing succession plan, perhaps a coup, by an all-male, patriarchal, clerical church.
As prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger released a letter on July 31, 2004, condemning feminism. As the enforcer of orthodoxy, he forbade the discussion of women-priests. We reject both the substance and the process of such teaching and assure concerned people of good will that such authoritarianism has no place in the Catholic community.
Women-Church Convergence calls on Pope Benedict XVI to distance himself from his former role as the arbiter of doctrine and to take on the mantle of a pastoral listener. Women-Church invites the new pope, whose role is to be a symbol of unity, to join in the dialogue and actions to bring about equality and partnership for women in all aspects of church life, including ordination to a renewed priestly ministry. Instead of condemning feminism, we expect Pope Benedict XVI to affirm the important values that Catholic feminists bring to the table and to recognize our leadership. A first step would be to invite Catholic feminists to fill fifty percent of the leadership roles in all Catholic institutions, beginning with the Curia.
Women-Church Convergence is a coalition of autonomous Catholic-rooted organizations/groups working for the empowerment of women in church and society.
"Mary E. Hunt 301-589-2509 240-472-4587 mhunt@hers.com"
Ah, the notorious prophetess Mary E. Hunt, former wife of Mike. World-renowned for standing on a table at a convention and shouting:
"If anyone wants to know what's wrong with the Church today, just look at Mike Hunt!!!"
thats bad.....
Start with ten Our Mothers, and say three Glory Be to the asexual Parent, the husband of the Magdeline, and the Great Spirit of Indigeounus Peoples...
It's about the enormous holes in their souls. They think with those holes and how to fill them. The answer, of course, is at the foot of the Cross.
They are too self-centered, self-absorbed and full of self-hatred and arrogance to go to the Source of Life. The women's lib movement has sold them a bill of goods. It told them that their answers are in political movements.
I wonder how long it will be before they realize the futility of their search for soul-fillers in politics.
If these creatures had even a shred of intellectual honesty, they'd quit calling themselves "Catholic".
IOW: "Non serviam"
The Church should not let herself be drawn into this juridical paradigm. Even if that has been the practice in the past, it's more fruitful to look upon the rejection of radical autonomy not as a matter of compliance, but of coming into the Truth: that in radical autonomy there's no remedy for death. Primarily, radical autonomy isn't a procedural problem. It's an existential problem; namely, if we rely on ourselves without reference to Christ the Eternal Logos, we have no enduring meaning or rational existence.
Oops! Typo here -- shouldn't that be "heteronormative"?
Anyone who wants to know who truly puts a value on the feminine should remember that that banquet is a Wedding-Feast.
Sounds like a rehash of Pelagianism. Modernism is indeed the uberheresy.
The most forthright statement of goals I've seen was in a thread Aristotle721 posted, written by a "youth minister" and on the bustedhalo.com website, I’m not leaving, I’m not going to be quiet. How's this for coming right out and saying it? --
I’m tired of not talking about important things- sexuality, power, who is allowed to do what and who gets to say so.
Sounds like what used to be called (in an "unenlightened" age), the World, the Flesh and the Devil!
From the number of threads and posts it would seem that this "forum" is generating about as much interest as a single FR religion thread on a slow day.
Don't dignify these people with attention and publicity.
It's obvious that this is another classic case of a small group of dissenters making a lot of noise.
I think one of the biggest problems facing Catholicism is the lack of real men in its midst.
Women are the ones taking their kids to Mass, offering to teach religious instruction, convening this function or that function. That women are the general driving force of the laity is a big, big problem. If it continues apace, what we think we've achieved by the election of Pope Benedict XVI might be a fleeting victory.
Something has to be done to increase, appeal to and enflame the masculine laity.
Bears repeating.
That's a Poundian turn of phrase.
I think the real problem here is these gals hate men. They actually feel that they are inferior. My dad never made me feel inferior because I was his fifth daughter. He also had two sons. He treated us all alike and loved us unconditionally.
They need our prayers, but I doubt they would actually wish for them. They seem to be under the influence of pagan gods (UIPG).
Hell, I couldn't even read it....
Non-Catholic feminists, of course!
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