Could this married feminist be the Catholic Church's first woman cardinal?

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An Irish feminist is causing a stir in the Catholic world as rumours are rife the married 49-year-old could be set to join the world’s ‘most exclusive’ club.
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Linda Hogan is being tipped as a contender to become the Vatican’s first female cardinal.
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And while the debate rages, Professor Hogan, the vice-provost of Trinity College Dublin, is leading the pack of potential candidates for the historic post.
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While the academic has refrained from commenting on the speculation, colleagues have revealed her strong interest in theology, ethics and human rights.
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Gina Menzies, a Dublin theologian, said: 'She’d be quite radical.
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‘One of her strong beliefs is something Pope Francis has been hinting at, too: that the basis of moral theology starts from human experience.’
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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486066/Could-Linda-Hogan-Catholic-Churchs-woman-cardinal.html
 
Even if that were to happen, which I highly doubt, we would end up with a two-tier class of cardinals: those able to be elected and those not.
 
gracepoole said:
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The British media are even more clueless (and generally much more malicious) than the American media when it comes to religion.

I hope that there will be female cardinals, but this entire article seems like wild speculation.

Why would this particular Irish woman be the first female cardinal? She certainly seems like a highly qualified academic, but there are plenty of highly qualified Catholic women, and I’m not sure that Pope Francis would pick an academic necessarily even if he did pick female cardinals.

Edwin
 
This is typical tabloid gossip, speculation and sensationalism, that is not based on anything but the fertile imagination of the author. It is fiction, not news; please don’t post this kind of thing here.
 
The article is entirely speculation. However in the past there were “lay cardinals” yet they were given “first tonsure” and held minor orders which made them clerics but would allow some of them to be married. So technically, they were no longer laymen. Of course, they were all men.

The position of cardinal is not an ordination per se and as such can be what the Pope deems it to be. The word “cardinal” means door keeper and it originated as a position of a kind of head usher; protector of the faithful (from the Romans) and advisor to the Pope. It eventually turned into a type of princely title in the middle ages and of course, those who elect the next pope. It is set by, as the article stated, canon law and the Pope can lift canon law in individual cases; which might lead some to hope for female cardinals.

However, I think, there are some difficulties in the idea of a female cardinal.
  1. The position has always been held by a male
  2. The fact that at least minor orders has always been required, which would preclude a woman being a cardinal
 
It’s amazing the intellectual leaps required for this article to reach its conclusion. It begins with “this is why this is possible…” and then takes a quote from a conveniently unnamed source that reads more as an offhand comment than a legitimate bit of speculation. And legitimate speculation (which Daily Mail is not capable of, from what I’ve seen) is still just that, speculation. Pay them no mind; this is typical sensationalist garbage from a typical sensationalist tabloid, surely made to generate web hits (since “selling newspapers” isn’t really a profitable enterprise anymore, it seems). Get your Church news from people who know what they’re talking about, like CNA, CNS, and the Vatican itself.

-ACEGC
 
Can someone on CAF tell me if Michael Voris is opposed to the concept of female cardinals? I know he dislikes the idea of girls as altar servers.
 
Contarini said:
The British media are even more clueless (and generally much more malicious) than the American media when it comes to religion.

I hope that there will be female cardinals, but this entire article seems like wild speculation.

Why would this particular Irish woman be the first female cardinal? She certainly seems like a highly qualified academic, but there are plenty of highly qualified Catholic women, and I’m not sure that Pope Francis would pick an academic necessarily even if he did pick female cardinals.

Edwin
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Well here name was dropped by a Priest on Facebook. Now if it had come from a bishop, Cardinal or out of the Vatican I would find the rumor more credible.
The report says her name was first floated by Fr James Keenan, a New York Jesuit attached to Boston College, on his Facebook page.
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tjones80 said:
Well here name was dropped by a Priest on Facebook. Now if it had come from a bishop, Cardinal or out of the Vatican I would find the rumor more credible.
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perhaps it was said in a sarcastic manor in jest?
 
Why are some people so obsessed with this? The Church is called SHE, and the greatest of all saints in the Church is a woman. A woman, our Blessed Mother, is above all the Popes. Be satisfied with that.
 
The problem is that there are too many Catholics who think that the Catholic Church is a man-made institution and not divine in origin. They think that whatever the Pope decides is just his opinion. And they think that the Catholic Church should work like a democracy and “get with the times”. If this were not the case they would have accepted it when the Pope said that women can’t be ordained. But they never accepted it. If those Catholics are combined with the rest of the secular world that agrees with them there would be a potential for “might makes right” and them attempting to take the papacy by force and installing the first female anti-pope. I think that’s what is behind the “woman cardinal” idea. Radical feminists have convinced many women that men are the enemy. Satan has divided us by creating a “war of the sexes” and pitting women against men. It’s the tactic of divide and conquer. This is a spiritual war.
 
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Wouldn’t she have to be a priest first, then a Bishop?
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Cardinal is not a step in a ordained hierarchy. It is a separate office. However under current canon law a cardinal must be made a bishop after taking the office. This can (and has) been dispensed with by the pope in individual cases. However all cardinals do hold holy orders; which would exclude a female becoming a cardinal.
 
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