Bowing to PC and politics. Doesn’t sound like a religious leader; more like a local politician
I don’t know much about this O’Malley guy, but I think you might be miss-reading. Us, in our fallibility, would do things different than what the Lord did, but we’d do well to obey God’s clear teaching.
Of course, after reading the article, yes, he is saying he could do it better than Jesus.
Ok, go find one somewhere...because you have surely lost your own.
What person in the NT had the first gathering of what could be constituted a church?
My wife as a DRE and Confirmation Director has a better explanation to the teens when teaching on this subject. She tells them to focus on the things they “CAN” do versus the things they “CANT” do and let God handle the rest. This really resonates with the young women.
Someone should tell Sean we have had women priests—you know, the faggots who were diddling little boys.
Also, Sean read this: http://leomcneil.net/2014/11/17/lumbersexuals-your-beard-doesnt-make-you-masculine/
Does the good Cardinal believe he is equal to Christ?
His only failing was that he was born 2 thousand years too late to do it right.
I saw that piece and it appeared to me that O’Malley is a bleeding heart liberal and maybe even plays for the other team.
Blech.........
Oh good grief! Not to your comment, but to O’Malley.
I used to really struggle with this, but I am getting more comfortable. It may be a little cynical to say, but maybe men need the priestly vocation more than women do. God tends to call people, not only for what he needs them to do, but also to help them grow towards Him. Like St. Peter, who needed to become a better man, and also was needed to lead the flock.
Most women get a monthly reminder to stay humble, and that God is in charge. Also, pregnancy is a process that offers themselves up for service in the cause of life-giving. Maybe some men particularly need to know that God is in charge, and they are supposed to serve, with reverence. So they consecrate hosts and baptize, etc.
it’s true, as the Cardinal said, that if he were doing it, he could come up with a nice little religion. It just wouldn’t be real, and Jesus would have no interest in it. Our trade off is that we go for real, tangible evidence of Christ among us, and live with some unanswered questions.
I think that the point he is trying to make is that the decision to reserve the priesthood to men was by God and not by human reasoning.
Instead of listening to GOD the way he is suppost to do, he is listening to the “Modern” Catholics.
I for one take my authority from GOD, and the BIBLE, the pope is a man...this church was built by Jesus upon ‘this rock’ anymore said?
One thing we do know: Scripture does permit a married clergy:
” A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”
1 Timothy 3:2
I don’t know, but I don’t have much trust in O’Malley.
During the interview O’Donnell described O’Malley as “shy” and said it took more than a year for him to agree to the interview. He let her push him around on women’s ordination and appeared at times pained to defend politically incorrect Church teaching. When she asked if it was “immoral” to bar women from the priesthood, it was time for him to push back a little bit. He needs to pray for the spine of Mother Angelica. Cardinal O’Connor was kind but never let himself be cowed.