UK Catholics who want women to be ordained send Pope Benedict XVI a mesage via bus

[Soutane]

UK Catholics who want women to be ordained send Pope Benedict XVI a mesage via bus
By The Associated Press (CP) – 13 hours ago

LONDON — Some London buses are carrying a message for Pope Benedict XVI, urging him to admit women to the Roman Catholic priesthood.

The posters which began appearing Monday are timed to be visible when the pope is in London from September 16th to the 19th.

Pat Brown of the Catholic Women’s Ordination group says advocates of women’s ordination are prohibited from discussing it within the church. She says not talking about it was “not the British way.”

google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gP07tGJkxn8kBN51-C_vzdnVZ-Kg

 

[kamaan]

There is already a thread on this topic that can be found here:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=488642&highlight=bus+ordain

 

[Soutane]

Blah,Blah,Blah,Blah Blah.More disobedient Catholics…Yaaaawwwwnnnn.
I think the Catholic way takes precedence over the British way.

We need a much,much,smaller Church.One whose members are truly Catholic.

 

[Dale_M]

I think the Catholic way takes precedence over the British way…

I think “the British way” is to not talk about issues such as female ordination, so it would be consistent with the Catholic way. However, it appears the talking will begin.

The group which is sponsoring the bus ads has also launched a new organization which will provide speakers on various reform of the Church topics:

A Catholic speakers’ bureau is being launched ahead of next month’s papal visit to provide alternative views on controversial church issues such as child abuse, women’s ordination, married priests and homosexuality.

Catholic Voices for Reform will go head to head with Catholic Voices, an established group which has recruited and trained 20 media-friendly “ordinary” Catholics to articulate traditional church positions before and during Benedict XVI’s four-day tour.

The new organisation, unlike its older and more conformist counterpart, will call for a wholesale transformation of the papacy and the Vatican. It will offer the media a chance to hear the views of Catholics who are “deeply concerned at the present state of the church”.

guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/24/rival-catholic-groups-papal-visit

That article references a rival organization, called Catholic Voices, which has the blessing of the bishops of England and Wales. Here is a news article about them:

The personable young woman sitting opposite Emily Maitlis on Newsnight keeps her cool. She is being grilled about the Pope’s speech at Westminster Hall. She carefully makes her way through a potential minefield without detonating anything. She avoids both the “I’m a Catholic but I don’t agree with the Pope on this one” staple of one type of Catholic commentator and the angry defence of another type. Instead, she is informative as she lays out what the Church teaches and offers a clear explanation of the Pope’s comments.

This scenario could well become reality by the time the Pope comes to Britain in September. Catholic Voices is a new initiative in which 20 lay Catholics are being trained to answer questions, sit on panels, do interviews and take part in debates during the visit. If the project is successful British Catholics may find that they no longer have white knuckles when the news turns to matters Catholic. And non-Catholic Britons may emerge with a better understanding of what the Church teaches and why.

archive.catholicherald.co.uk/features/f0000574.shtml

 

[po18guy]

When men can be mothers, dearie…

 

[casey_zia]

The new organisation, unlike its older and more conformist counterpart, will call for a wholesale transformation of the papacy and the Vatican. It will offer the media a chance to hear the views of Catholics who are “deeply concerned at the present state of the church”.

As the folk song goes, “when will they ever learn?”
Funny how a small group of very “concerned” Catholics from a miniscule portion of the world think they can impact our huge Faith Tradition with their superficial and self-serving appeals…