Why not ordain women?In the April 11 issue of Commonweal, Robert J. Egan, SJ, invites readers to look again at this question. Egan doubts that “the tradition of excluding women from the diaconate, presbyterate, and episcopate” has “really been faithful to the teaching and practice of Jesus.” In his opinion, the tradition probably rests instead on
“a mostly unexamined and partially unconscious bias for subjecting women to men’s authority and power.”Until the church honestly faces “the whole truth about our history,” he writes, Catholic women will continue to suffer a grave injustice.
Link (here) to the full Commonweal post.
Robert J Egan, SJ Bio (here)
Is it a sin for a Catholic / Jesuit to be a forceful advocate of Catholic priestesses ?
5 comments:
Many, many years ago, I thought that, perhaps, a day would come when women could be ordained if it was from the Holy Spirit.
That was before I started reading articles in Catholic publications by women, mostly nuns, who wanted to be priests "in order to change the teachings of the Church regarding contraception, divorce, abortion, etc." And there was the article in NCR when Sr Joan Chittister and a few women dropped the stoles they were wearing (!) to the floor during a Call to Action Mass.
Wolfhard Pannenberg, in an article in ENI some years ago, deplored the fact that female pastors in the Lutheran Church often dissented with the teachings of the Church. Female pastors or priests seem to be the most ready to accept abortion, divorce, gay marriage and any deviation from the Bible that is favored by modern society.
I think this is one more consequence of the rejection of Humanae vitae, albeit indirectly.
It does not come from the Spirit.
Elise B.
"Female pastors or priests seem to be the most ready to accept abortion, divorce, gay marriage and any deviation from the Bible that is favored by modern society."
They know life better than men
The Devil tempts women with different sins than men.
That may be so, but they have not attacked the basic teachings of the Church. Even the most debauched of Popes have not used their position to alter the treasure of the faith which had been entrusted to them.
Elise B.
Elise B.
Thank you for your participation.
JMJ
Joe
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