“Meet the female ‘pastors’ who dress and act like priests in Netherlands’ dying Catholic church”

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Hello JSRG,

Whether lifesitenews.com present news in a “sensationalistic” manner is obviously subjective and open to personal interpretation and I make no comment as to its style, but offer this piece for perusal as it appears to give information corroborated by other web sites linked in the piece. The websites were created by those mentioned in the piece. I presume the video footage of a robed woman seemingly engaged in blessing hunting dogs with holy water (this footage can be viewed by clicking on the link in the lifesitenews.com article and then accepting the cookies by clicking on the sign “Ja, ik acepteer cookies”) was also presumably uploaded by a supporter of the action

In view of my reasons given above, I have not searched for any other source of information regarding this and owing to the strange reluctance of much of the Catholic media world to report on controversial topics relating to the Church at present, I would be surprised to find any. For this reason, I regularly visit lifesitenews.com in order to keep abreast of topics that I would otherwise be in ignorance of.
 
Jessie said:
I wrote to the bishop years ago and he ignored me. I think it’s well known and supported. I was moved to try again, but I cannot even see how you contact him. How do you contact a bishop. On the diocesan website I could not see a way. I spoke to the FSSP and he said it was not even worth speaking to the priest because they are so hardened in their views and have the support of the congregations who push for this.
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Having been in the Church for fourty years, and active behind the scenes in parish life for twenty, I agree with your pessimism here. By all means write just so you can feel that you’ve “done something”, but you are probably wasting your time. As you say, you’ve already done it once and were ignored.

I don’t see much point in informing the bishop or a priest of something he’s almost certainly aware of and has already assented to.

Pick your fights.
 
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If you can’t refute the message, then attack the messenger…
 
You mentioned you are in Bavaria.

The two Archdioceses are:

Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

Archdiocese of Bamberg.

So you’re archbishop is either Cardinal Reinhard Marx or Archbishop Ludwig Schick?
 
Jessie said:
How do you contact a bishop.
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Does your diocese have a website?

I wrote to my bishop about a different matter a couple of years ago and although I had to wait about six weeks for a response, he did write back to me, thanking me for expressing my views and saying he would take them into account.
 
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I feel sorry for everyone here. The ::ahem:: “pastors”, their parishioners, and most importantly, the church in the Netherlands.
 
My question is why are women dressing like priest, giving themselves similar titles, and trying to do similar things? This is wrong doesn’t really matter who is reporting on it, if it is happening (which appears that yes it is happening) then it is an abuse to people’s faith, abuse to the women doing it (because no one is correcting them), and ultimately an abuse to Jesus because he created the priesthood and the Catholic Church.
 
Lysander said:
My question is why are women dressing like priest, giving themselves similar titles, and trying to do similar things?
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They are not dressing like priests. They are wearing white robes (or gray?) like the garment they were given at baptism. Because they are performing some liturgical functions, they wear liturgical garb that distinguishes them from the priest.

Similarly, they are called Pas’tor to distinguish them from priests who are addressed as Pastoor’.

If people arr unfamiliar with these customs, they may mistake them for priests. It is unfortunate the customs are not well known.
 
They are not wearing plain white robes in the pictures, they look very similar to priest vestments. And how old is this custom does it go back hundred of years or just a few(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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At the conclusion of [his baptism, Constantine] arrayed himself in shining imperial vestments, brilliant as the light, and reclined on a couch of the purest white, refusing to clothe himself with the purple any more.
Eusebius Life of Constantine
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It is an ancient custom for almost every liturgical minister to wear a white robe, called an alb. The design varies from place to place.
 
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