Re Letter in diocesan magazine

[need_to_know]

I’m sure the editors realize that…I would hope! The problem is with why they chose that letter to highlight in their magazine? Unless it’s a Q&A type section, that would be good, because then an answer about Catholic teaching would be appropriate follow up. But, it looks like it’s just a letter hanging there…with no real purpose.

Whetevergirl, I agree that the editor probably did know the nature of the writer’s view, I am surprised myself that he did not correct her. He added a line after the letter about Eastern and Othodox priests not having to be celibate but chose not to address her views on priestly ordination for women.

RUINATION_IPA:

I have to interject here. It is the nature of every periodical with letters to the editor to print things that are meant to get people stirred up and write in. It keeps things interesting and it ensures that people will continue reading to see who wins the debate. In other words: It keeps the money rolling…

I would agree with you here, except the magazine if funded by contributions to the diocese so they will not make any money either way. Although I suppose circulation numbers are important.

Good heavens! Not only don’t you want to see dissenting ideas published as articles in the diocesan paper, you don’t think they should even print letters if the contents are unorthodox in your view?

Can you see why non-Catholics see this and wonder what would happen to them if people like you ever became too powerful?

Edwin

Edwin, the point is that as far as the Church’s official line on this is that women cannot receive valid holy orders. John Paul II said, “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful” - the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith confirmed this as an infallible doctrine, saying that the Church’s traditional ban on women priest “requires definitive assent…(and) has been set forth **infallibly **by
the ordinary and universal Magisterium.” The teaching that the Church possesses no authority to ordain women, declared the letter, “is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of faith.” (h/t to ricko’s post). I understand that these words do not necessarily mean much to you as an Episcopalian but I feel that the diocesan magazine - as a diocesan publication - ought to have corrected the view this woman put forth if they were going to publish her letter.

I don’t know if your second point was an attack on me or the Church in general - you simply say “people like you” - so I won’t address it.

 

[whatevergirl]

I remember a paper called the Pittsburgh Catholic, if I’m recalling right, and it sounds like what you describe here, needtoknow.

It was not a subscription, I can’t recall now, I don’t think it was, it was something we would pick up after mass…like once per month, I think? I wouldn’t have wanted to see such sentiments in it. I don’t want controversial chatter in a Catholic publication, I’m reading it to become informed, not confused.