Pope Benedict says Church teaching on "woman's ordination" is "definitive"

[MarcoPolo]

Recently a group of priests from a European country issued a summons to disobedience, and at the same time gave concrete examples of the forms this disobedience might take, even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church’s Magisterium, such as the question of women’s ordination, for which Blessed Pope John Paul II stated irrevocably that the Church has received no authority from the Lord. Read his full homily from April 5, 2012 here.

 

[Melchior_1]

Recently a group of priests from a European country issued a summons to disobedience, and at the same time gave concrete examples of the forms this disobedience might take, even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church’s Magisterium, such as the question of women’s ordination, for which Blessed Pope John Paul II stated irrevocably that the Church has received no authority from the Lord. Read his full homily from April 5, 2012 here.

When will people catch the hint? It’s a theological impossibility, and the Church has no authority to ordain women. Blessed John Paul II and now His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI have been very clear on this.

Case closed. The Church has spoken using Her full authority, and has said to get in line.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Dissenters will probably argue that the above homily itself did not qualify as speaking with papal infallibility, that it’s not evidence of the Ordinary Magisterium speaking yet again clearly, and therefore it’s okay to take the 180° opposite position. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=6877&stc=1&d=1256842239

 

[_Abyssinia]

It is an unchangeable teaching.

 

[Lormar]

This sermon is one of the best our Holy Father has ever given. Maybe I am wrong, but I sensed he was also trying to tell the SSPX something without mentioning them.

In case there are some here who haven’t seen this, this sermon was a good one too:

news.va/en/news/pope-obedience-and-freedom-on-the-mount-of-olives

I love this part:

The stance of Adam was: not what you, O God, have desired; rather, I myself want to be a god. This pride is the real essence of sin. We think we are free and truly ourselves only if we follow our own will. God appears as the opposite of our freedom. We need to be free of him – so we think – and only then will we be free. This is the fundamental rebellion present throughout history and the fundamental lie which perverts life. When human beings set themselves against God, they set themselves against the truth of their own being and consequently do not become free, but alienated from themselves. We are free only if we stand in the truth of our being, if we are united to God. Then we become truly “like God” – not by resisting God, eliminating him, or denying him. In his anguished prayer on the Mount of Olives, Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom, and opened the path to freedom. Let us ask the Lord to draw us into this “yes” to God’s will, and in this way to make us truly free. Amen.

God bless Pope Benedict XVI!

 

[TheDoctor]

Recently a group of priests from a European country issued a summons to disobedience

Does anyone have the news source to this? I would like to see what mindset could lead them to this.

 

[sw85]

Does anyone have the news source to this? I would like to see what mindset could lead them to this.

Over 300 Austrian priests join ‘Call to Disobedience’

 

[TheDoctor]

Over 300 Austrian priests join ‘Call to Disobedience’

Thanks for the link.

It will be sad to see these men leaving the Church but sadder still on the day they stand before God and explain why they have broken with His Church.