Article about women priests

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Our local diocesan paper had an article touching on the topic of women in the priesthood. Don’t worry, it was all in line with the faith (ie against the idea).
One of the paragraphs explained the concept of priests being married to the church and made the connection of allowing women preists as tantamount to condoning gay marriage.
Is this reasoning correct? Any thoughts on this?
 
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Only in the context of what a “marriage,” consists of and what female ordination consist of.

Both are impossible.

Jim
 
Any chance you can put the paragraph in question here so we can see the context of the argument?
 
I knew someone would ask that. It’s more typing than I can do right now but my summation is accurate
 
Priests being married to the church? Sounds like a new age cockamammie idea. The usual referent for priests is the bishop, more father-son, rather than church, as husband and wife. Bishops married to their Church/diocese has some background to it, mostly as an argument against moving from one diocese to another. But without more clarity on where the idea comes from, it seems like modern gender ideology run amuck to me.

I don’t think anything that grafts that idea onto anti-gay ideology is likely to have much value.

Of course, another reader could have a completely different answer. Thats what you expect here, isn’t it?
 
I fully accept the Church’s teaching on male-only priests.

However, I don’t find that logic to be very sound. At least, it doesn’t form the whole picture. It’s only one way of explaining the reality. For if you take it to its extreme, it would be like saying that, because priests are married to the church (in the image of Christ), then they are not really part of the church. Which is absurd…

Or again, all Christians in the Body of Christ are “married” to Christ. Including men. Christ is married to the Church. But that doesn’t imply gay marriage just because male Christians in the Church are also “married” to Christ.

So no, it’s not good logic, but in general the idea of marriage is it at least one symbol that helps express the office of priest in the Body of Christ.
 
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Priests being married to the church? Sounds like a new age cockamammie idea.
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The Church is the body of Christ and Christ has been referred to as the “bridegroom,” for centuries.

Jim
 
It is correct only as a rough analogy, but not as a formal theological argument.
 
Your right it is a spiritual marriage of sorts and is not bound by the laws that would bind a physical one.
 
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