[NYer]

The Male Priesthood: The Argument From Sacred Tradition

Former Lutheran Pastor Defends All-Male Priesthood

[NYer]

Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of American Catholics have consistently told the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago that they favor ordaining women as well as married priests.

The Catholic Church is not driven by polls or opinion surveys. It is run by the Successor to St. Peter.

[wagglebee]

Despite excommunication threat, McCandless woman self-obsessed feminazi wacko RINO plans to become a priest remains a heretic

There, I fixed the title

[marshmallow]

But Mrs. Houk, who celebrated her 66th birthday last weekend.....

Yep....she fits the profile perfectly.

In 1966 she would have been 26. One of the young '60s radicals who's grown older but not wiser. Still trying to impose her '60s agenda on the Church as the sands of time gradually run out.

[markomalley]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

• Imitation doesn't make her a priest
• In fact, imitation doesn't make her a Catholic (well, soon a former Catholic

For her perspective, if she wants to dress up and play priestess, all well and good. Whatever. She can deal with the consequences now and in eternity.

I feel very sorry for the hundreds of people she will deceive through her clergy-play time.

[Suzy Quzy]

HELP!! A woman did the sermon at my Mass this Sunday. A SERMON, not talking about her work with the poor and asking for money, but a SERMON. This is the second one she's done when the pastor has been away, but I'm sure he knows and supports it. Is this OK in the Catholic Church? I need guidance on what to do.

[OpusatFR]

"Mrs. Houk believes the best way to spur the church to ordain women is to violate what she believes is an unjust law."

This is why we have a magisterium. Individuals bring their own errant beliefs and emotions, agendas and foibles into the mix.

" "The church has to take a stand for women ... that they are the image of God and are to be respected and treated on an equal, human level..."

It has and it does and will in the future. I can imagine a hell on earth if the Church had not existed and elevated women.

Her problem is that she wants to be masculine. She wants that authority and cannot accept the feminine.

[ArrogantBustard]

oan Clark Houk, shown near the parish offices of St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland,

Lovely bit of spin by the writers at the Pest-Gazette. Sort of puts an illusory air of officialness about her ... she's "shown near the parish offices" as if to imply that she has something to do with said offices.

MSM are evil.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"McCandless woman plans to become a priest"



Memo to stuck-in-the-60s-radical-bimbo: Honey, the episcopagan coven is two blocks down the street on your left. Suggest you waddle your size 20 caboose down there where they will welcome you. Your silly trash-talk ain't welcome here! Geeze, these types get my vinegar up! I wish they'd all just plain go away, far away.

[Petronski]

Joan Clark Houk, shown near the parish offices of St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland, is part of an international movement to ordain Catholic women. She plans to be ordained July 31.

Unfortunately for her poor deluded self, her ordination as a Roman Catholic priest is a factual impossibility.

[Rutles4Ever]

I pray that God will mercifully open the eyes of these women before it's too late.

[Carolina]

Mrs. Houk believes the best way to spur the church to ordain women is to violate what she believes is an unjust law.

Uh, no. You'll never be a Catholic priest. You're just playing dress-up.

[redhead]

It's not going to do her any good. She can play dress-up and go through the motions till the cows come home, but it won't change the fact that she is not and can never be a priest.

[jboot]

Hmmm, I have a scientific observation. It appears that over-the-hill, frizzy-haired hagbeasts are statistically more likely to make illigitimate efforts to become priests.

At least I've never seen a self-described fempriest who WASN'T a hagbag.

[BlessedBeGod]

She doesn't have a problem with the Catholic Church, she has a problem with Jesus Christ.

And she doesn't risk excommunication, she will automatically excommunicate herself if she goes ahead with this.

[lastchance]

Here we go again. AGAIN THIS WOMAN IS NO LONGER CATHOLIC IN UNION WITH THE SEE OF ROME. JUST CAUSE MY CAT HAS KITTENS IN THE OVEN DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE CUPCAKES. CALM DOWN PETA THE OVEN IS OFF.

PS. Does anyone else want to swear themselves in as a Supreme Court Justice or President of The United State of America or Emperor of the Lone Islands? It's fun, it's easy and it will amaze your friends and the press.

[stop_fascism]

Yes, women have no place in the church. Fortunately, no one told Mother Teresa, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Elizabeth Seaton, Hildagard of Bingan, St. Teresa of Avila....St. Mary.