Posted on 07/18/2008 9:05:11 AM PDT by NYer
Roman Catholic Womynpriests are up to their play-acting again. This time in Boston. Roman Catholic Womenpriests, who are neither Roman Catholic or Womanpriests, claim to be "ordaining" three additional women. In fact, it is actually an excommunication ceremony.
[Boston] Three aspiring Catholic priests will be anointed and prayed over this weekend in an ordination liturgy that will resemble the traditional in most ways but one: The three being ordained are women.Of course, the Boston Globe treats these freaky fraus seriously. Leaving the usual media bias aside, did you notice where the "ordination" would be taking place, a protestant church.
The ordination ceremony Sunday, at a historic Protestant church in the Back Bay, is the first such event to take place in Boston, one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, in accord with Vatican teaching, says the participants in the ordination ceremony will be automatically excommunicating themselves.
But the women being ordained say they are acting because they feel called to the priesthood and compelled to resist what they view as a wrong church teaching.
"We're part of a prophetic tradition of disobeying an unjust law," said Gabriella Velardi Ward, a 61-year-old Staten Island architect with two children and five grandchildren, who will be ordained along with Gloria Carpeneto of Baltimore and Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly of Newton, N.J.
Ward said she has wanted to be a priest since age 5, and that she actively considered becoming a nun before deciding that the priesthood was her calling because she wants to be able to celebrate Catholic sacraments.
The ordination will be Sunday afternoon in Church of the Covenant on Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay. The church is affiliated with two Protestant denominations, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ.The last time this happened in St. Louis happened it was in a synagogue. I suppose that is what you get for 40 years of ecumenism, Vatican II style. You are viewed as a doormat. Nice.
The interim pastor of Church of the Covenant, the Rev. Jennifer Wegter-McNelly, said the congregation decided to rent its historic space, with Tiffany windows depicting women of the Bible, at a nominal fee to show support.
"It's our effort to encourage and celebrate with them," Wegter-McNelly said. "This church's commitment to women goes back a long time."
"Catholics who attempt to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the women who attempt to receive a sacred order, are by their own actions separating themselves from the church," the archdiocese said. "As a faith community rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus Christ, we pray for those who have willingly fallen away from the church by participating in such activities."The womynpriest movement presents us with an opportunity. Why don't these dizzy dames send their "magic crackers" to PZ Myers. That way they can both have their fun, and leave Jesus out of it.
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But the archdiocese also said it hopes the women involved will seek "reconciliation" with the Catholic Church, and said, "Following our devotion to Mary, the church is committed to, and sustained by the many important contributions of women each and every day."
Now that is one great suggestion!!
Insanity. This is a concerted effort to destroy the Church.
And then they whine about the Catholic Church's distaste for ecumenism.
No one but moonbats attend these events and not even moonbats bother to attend the fake Masses performed by these lost souls after their make-believe ordinations.
There are plenty of other churches they could join and would fit in with.
I didn't think it was the PCUSA, the UUs, the UCC or the Reform Jews who were the ones "whining". If anything, it's the rest of us "whining" that the Catholic Church is too ecumenical.
Hence the logical contradiction of their position: their actions show that there is nothing so special about the Catholic Church that its teachings should be listened to, but there is something so special about the Catholic Church that they have to pretend to be members of it.
In reality, that responsibility is way above his pay grade.
That may have been true 50 years ago but is most assuredly not true today.
There. Fixed it.
ohh, yes!
ROFL!!! Thank you .. that’s much better.
Too funny.
But I think it would be a really good deal if we could trade all these "womynpriests", goofy feminist sisters, liberation-theology-preaching Jesuits, and for heaven's sake all the composers of 'contemporary worship music', for all the faithful Christians remaining in the Episcopal Church.
I'd even suggest throwing in Mahony's edifice and Oregon Catholic Press, lock, stock & barrel!
It’s also in the Back Bay,so I expect Sister Boom Boom to attend. They’ll probably perform some phony Same-Sex “Marriages” as well.
How about Mahoney & minions, Tod Brown and Trautperson. Oh and Plueger.
Well, at least the Messianic Jews give it back to the Reform Jews in spades.
. . . He's got 'em on the list — he's got 'em on the list; And they'll none of 'em be missed — they'll none of 'em be missed.
(I see an opportunity here for somebody who wants to mess with Mr. Gilbert's lyrics . . . )
Ko-Ko:
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of diocesan offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential nuisances who write "Glory and Praise" —
And Eucharistic Ministers who throng around the place —
And the lady from the Womynpriests who dresses like a guy,
And "feels called to the priesthood" and "would rather like to try,"
And on ignoring all the Magisterium insist —
They'd none of 'em be missed — no, they'd none of 'em be missed!
Chorus.
He's got 'em on the list — he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed — they'll none of 'em be missed.
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