women clergy?

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I noticed St. Mary’s Monastery in Rockford, IL has a retreat seminar referencing "women clergy’ in the title. I’ve never heard ‘clergy’ in regard to women in the Catholic church. What does this mean?
(this seems like a fairly liberal group of sisters from the other retreat seminars offered…)
 
I don’t know what they mean, but there aren’t, nor can there be any women clergy in the Catholic Church. Only men can receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
 
catechizeme said:
I noticed St. Mary’s Monastery in Rockford, IL has a retreat seminar referencing "women clergy’ in the title. I’ve never heard ‘clergy’ in regard to women in the Catholic church. What does this mean?
(this seems like a fairly liberal group of sisters from the other retreat seminars offered…)
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I assume they are offering a retreat for non-Catholic clergy who are women.

If I were a clergywoman I’m sure I’d look forward to a retreat addressing my needs. Not all faiths have retreat centers the way Catholics do.
 
Y’know, it could just be a seminar ABOUT the Church’s teaching on women’s ordination. Doesn’t mean they’re advocating women becoming clergy! Sheesh, can’t the words ‘women’ and ‘clergy’ even be mentioned in the same sentence without people assuming that whoever does so must be wanting women to be priests!
 
LilyM said:
Y’know, it could just be a seminar ABOUT the Church’s teaching on women’s ordination. Doesn’t mean they’re advocating women becoming clergy! Sheesh, can’t the words ‘women’ and ‘clergy’ even be mentioned in the same sentence without people assuming that whoever does so must be wanting women to be priests!
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Fair enough. I was just going by what the OP was saying in the original post.
 
ladybuggirl84 said:
Can’t Decons be women?
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"It is noted in the 1917 Catholic encyclopedia that “[t]he only surviving relic of the ordination of deaconesses in the West seems to be the delivery by the bishop of a stole and maniple to Carthusian nuns in the ceremony of their profession.” More detail is found in the article on the Carthusian Order:

“The Carthusian nuns have retained the privilege of the consecration of virgins, which they have inherited from the nuns of Prébayon. The consecration, which is given four years after the vows are taken, can only be conferred by the diocesan. The rite differs but slightly from that given in the Pontifical. The nun is invested with a crown, ring, stole and maniple, the last being worn on the right arm. These ornaments the nun only wears again on the day of her monastic jubilee, and after her death on her bier. It is a consecrated nun who sings the Epistle at the conventual Mass, though without wearing the manible. At Matins, if no priest be present, a nun assumes the stole and reads the Gospel. There are also lay sisters, Données, and Saeurs Touricres. Famous among Carthusian nuns have been St. Roseline of Villeneuve and Bl. Beatrix of Ornacieus.”

Note that, in this description, they do not customarily vest as deacons and, while they do certain things usually reserved to deacons, they do not do anything that requires the power of orders. They also do not sing the Gospel at Mass."

source: orthfullycatholic.blogspot.com/2007/11/update-on-carthusian-nun-thing.html
 
catechizeme said:
I noticed St. Mary’s Monastery in Rockford, IL has a retreat seminar referencing "women clergy’ in the title. I’ve never heard ‘clergy’ in regard to women in the Catholic church. What does this mean?
(this seems like a fairly liberal group of sisters from the other retreat seminars offered…)
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Who knows. You would have to find out more information. E-mail them.

There are people in the church who would gladly accept women clergy. I once heard a Catholic priest (older and with little to lose) say he supported the idea from the pulpit. There were women who chastised JP II shortly after his election when they took him to task in public. I recall media noted he (JP II) had a red face (irritated).

I find the growing orthodoxy among the youth to be refreshing. Many of these liberal elements are warmed over left overs from the 60’s generation that brought us the mainline decline and fuzziness (certainly not all of that generation think the same way).
I am sure the Catholic Church does not want to follow the Episcopal Church over the cliff 😃
 
Can you post a link to the seminar? I could not find anything related and don’t want to speculate.

smmsisters.org/index.html
catechizeme said:
I noticed St. Mary’s Monastery in Rockford, IL has a retreat seminar referencing "women clergy’ in the title. I’ve never heard ‘clergy’ in regard to women in the Catholic church. What does this mean?
(this seems like a fairly liberal group of sisters from the other retreat seminars offered…)
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LeroyCRHP said:
I don’t believe this is the link catechizeme was talking about can we stay on topic to what catechizeme was looking at. I would like to see a link to what she is talking about.

I did not see anything like this on their site.
smmsisters.org/index.html

Thanks
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Of course you can stay on topic and so can I. The title of the thread was “women clergy”. I posted something on that topic… Sorry if I bothered you. I didnt post the link for you personally thats why I didnt quote you. It was an in general post… Why even comment on my post? just dont respond if you dont like it.
 
CarmeliteGirl25 said:
I realize that someone might take offense to this, so rather than risk it, I wanted to post a link that would back me up:
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This thread has now been totally derailed. And by a banned topic! See forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=246038:
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We regret the necessity of this ban, but the moderators and administrators just do not have the time and resources to arbitrate the centering prayer threads at this time. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. God bless.
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How sad is it that discussion of a prayer form has to be banned because of the misunderstandings about it.
 
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