Catholic Women’s Ordination Conference Lays Out the Case for Women Priests

WOC ^ | 4/12/05 | Women's Ordination Conference

[anniegetyourgun]

Everbody's gettin' in on the try-to-influence-the-next-pope-selection act.....

[EA_Man]

Never gonna happen

[dfwgator]

Married priests ain't gonna happen either.

[pissant]

These feminists need to start their own church or maybe join the episcopalians. Don't want 'em in mine.

[JohnnyZ]

WOC can arrange interviews with women called to priesthood, ordained Catholic women, feminist theologians, and church historians to speak about the issue of women priests.

In case the NYTimes doesn't have a complete list of dissidents already!

[frogjerk]

These feminists need to start their own church or maybe join the episcopalians. Don't want 'em in mine.

Amen to that. Leave us alone, would ya!

[stylin19a]

I'm guessing they'll have an easier time staying celibate...if my wife is any indicator.

[kingattax]

“There is no biblical or theological reason to keep women from the priesthood,” continued Barnes. The Vatican states women cannot be priests because in the gospels Jesus chose only male apostles. However, in 1976 the Vatican’s own Pontifical Biblical Commission concluded that there is no scriptural reason to prohibit women’s ordination

1 Timothy 2:11-13

11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

No scriptural reason ?..Better look again !

[Warlord]

Both Paul VI and John Paul II declared the matter closed.

[BikerNYC]

Never gonna happen

I agree that it will be a real stretch for the hierarchy to go back to the very old days when there were female priests.

[wk4bush2004]

Honestly, I don't think these people read the Bible.

1st Corinthians Chapter 14 and 1st Timothy both condem the ordination of women.

[george wythe]

“There is no biblical or theological reason to keep women from the priesthood,”

That's right. Until recently, women were priests in the catholic church, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

It's just the modern reinterpretation of the Bible by these Johnny-come-lately theologians that created the male-only priesthood. It's time to go back to the biblical model of female priests.

[/end of sarcasm]

[brooklyn dave]

Maybe I have a different take on things. I wouldn't have problems if the Church allowed women as priests. What's more important is that the priest (be it a man or a woman) have the orthodox belief in the real presence of the Eucharist. This belief among even the current male priesthood is somewhat in jeopardy and thus among the laity. This is the belief that is at the heart of being a Catholic Christian.

[Blzbba]

"11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."


That sounds like the Islamic point of view.

[onyx]

Let these women hear the call of the Episcopalians.

[wideawake]

There never were female priests in the Catholic Church.

No historical inquiry has ever uncovered any evidence of a woman claiming to be a priest who was (1) in communion with the Holy See or (2) had her claimed orders recognized by the Holy See.

Period.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Everbody's gettin' in on the try-to-influence-the-next-pope-selection act....

Of course. That started the night JPII died.

[franky]

Why did God not choose a woman to die on the cross?

If women clegry in non Catholic faiths are any example, watch out. Liberalism reigns in those denominations even to the point that many of these women are pro abortion.

[The_Repugnant_Conservative]

This would be real popular with the majority in Africa and South America. /sarcasm