What’s it like being the only female cleric at the synod on young people? [Barf Alert]

America ^ | October 22, 2018 | Luke Hansen, S.J.

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Dressed in the liturgical vestments of the Hussite Church—a black robe with an imprinted red chalice and white stole—she delivered an address to the whole synod body on Oct. 11, emphasizing the importance of ecumenical relations, calling the synod a “sign of hope” and affirming the capacity of young people to be bridge builders.

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Ping

[alternatives?]

“affirming the capacity of young people to be bridge builders.”

to whom?

[Notthereyet]

Oi. Ebb tide, I believe this is what would be considered, ‘the camel’s nose in the tent.”

[yarddog]

Being a female cleric means you are violating several directives in the Bible.

[ebb tide]

Yes; and the camel will get all the way into the tent at Bergoglio’s upcoming Amazonian Sin-Nod.

[Notthereyet]

“Amazonian Sin-Nod”
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Excellent description of the event!

[Stingray51]

Note her boyish haircut. No wonder the Jesuits were enthralled.

[ealgeone]

Your denomination is falling apart.

[Verginius Rufus]

Kopecka got her two cents’ worth in. Or, because a kopeck is one one-hundredth of a ruble, maybe she got her one cent’s worth in.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Trust me honey, you weren’t the only one wearing ladies underwear in that group.

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Polly wanna cracker?

[ealgeone]

A pathetic attempt....however, your denomination is still falling apart.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, on the Road to the Reformation! And we have young Ultra-Reformed Miss Reverend Hussite there to show us the way! (Snicker.)

[ealgeone]

She’s in your denomination.....among other things.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I guess you didn't read the article? She's a Czech (Protestant) Hussite respresenting the (Protestant) World Council of Churches. She is not a "member" of my "denomination" and she is not amember of this Synod of Bishops: she is a non-voting, non-Catholic, non-Bishop observer.

Here's how she describes herself in the article:

““My heart is really in Hussitism and the Reformation and the legacy of Jan Hus,” she said.

So I will concede the other half of your point. This alien "denomination" of Protestantizing Post-Catholics is a mess.

[ealgeone]

It contains mixed Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and national elements. Classifying it as any single one is disputable. The church describes itself as neo-Hussite.

Apparently you didn't either.

The whole thing is a mess.

[Mrs. Don-o]

But here we're talking about Hussism as a Protestant mess.

Catholicism has its own messes, particularly with the election of our present, Protestantizing Pope.

[ealgeone]

It really can't be labled as either based on my prior post. It's a mix of everything.

Catholicism has its own messes, particularly with the election of our present, Protestantizing Pope.

Yet he's still your ROMAN CATHOLIC pope.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh? Is the pope Catholic?

Intriguingly, this is no longer the punchline of a joke, but the topic of much contemporary discussion. One of his buds, Card. Anthony Spadaro, has written effusively that this pope, mirabile dictu ---and unlike the previous ones--- doesn't hold himself much bound by Scripture or Tradition, nor by the Papal Magisterium.

Being bound by such, Spadaro says, would be a "disordered attachment."

Granted, Spadaro is a fool. But a man who deems himself Christian and yet has not this attachment to Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium, is, by those core criteria, not Catholic.

More in the Protestant milieu, to judge him by canon, norm and principle.

That seems to be the problem.

So we agree it's a mess. You think, perhaps, the mess is that he's too Catholic. The rest of us, better informed, realize he's not nearly Catholic enough.