Women as Priests/ Call to action

[Larowyn]

Are you not aware that there are men, who like the women, are also vowed religious? Just like nuns and religious sisters, they are monks and religious brothers, and that call to live a celibate life in community and service is distinctly different than the call to be a priest. Otherwise, there could be no such thing as a religious-order priest, which is really a response to two different callings. A nun is not the “female equivalent” of a priest.

Leave it to a CAF member to take any opportunity to attack someone whom they perceive to be ignorant or misguided. I’ve been discerning for more than five years now, so I’d think I would know what the differences are. You apparently read what you wanted to read when you read my post.

 

[Chris_LaRock]

Call To Action is an evil group, and women cannot be ordained as Priests. Talk to the Priest, and if that fails, send a letter to the Bishop. But whatever you do, don’t tell the Priest or the Bishop how to do their jobs, nor insult them - just tell them the problem.

Can women be layman clergy, or function in any way as promoters of the gospel?

 

[drforjc]

Can women be layman clergy, or function in any way as promoters of the gospel?

Can you restate your question? Of course women can be promoters of the gospel… all Christians are called to promote the gospel, by virtue of their baptism. Can women be clergy? No.

 

[Chris_LaRock]

Can you restate your question? Of course women can be promoters of the gospel… all Christians are called to promote the gospel, by virtue of their baptism. Can women be clergy? No.

That’s cool. I think you did okay answering my question.

 

[ChemicalBean]

Leave it to a CAF member to take any opportunity to attack someone whom they perceive to be ignorant or misguided. I’ve been discerning for more than five years now, so I’d think I would know what the differences are. You apparently read what you wanted to read when you read my post.

Yep, that’s what we do best on CAF! Congratulations for discerning for over 5 years. I’ve been discerning for over 7.

Actually, I apparently read the following:

Larowyn:

Why do women have to be priests? They can be nuns if they want to live a single, celibate life for God.

which implies that the vocation of a nun is the “equivalent” vocation of a priest, because both usually are a “celibate life for God”. In order to try to understand why some women “have to be priests”, one must understand that the vocation to vowed community life is distinct from, but compatible with, the vocation to ordained priesthood.

 

[Larowyn]

Yep, that’s what we do best on CAF! Congratulations for discerning for over 5 years. I’ve been discerning for over 7.

Actually, I apparently read the following:

which implies that the vocation of a nun is the “equivalent” vocation of a priest, because both usually are a “celibate life for God”. In order to try to understand why some women “have to be priests”, one must understand that the vocation to vowed community life is distinct from, but compatible with, the vocation to ordained priesthood.

Not that I’m counting, but five years is as far back as I clearly remember thinking about becoming a priest. I’m pretty sure I was considering it back when I started high school, in which case if would be nine years. Five years is an estimate.

I did not say that priests and nuns were equivalent vocations, just that a person who is a priest or a nun serves God and all humans, and if all they saw priests for were the guys who say Mass in colorful robes each week, then they’d better rethink their goals.