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Deacon_Tony560
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The headline of spiritdaily.com this morning tells about nine women being Ordained in the Catholic Church. What do you think?
In a further challenge to Vatican orthodoxy, the women may be married, divorced or remarried – “as long as they’re in a stable relationship or are a stable person,” said U.S. activist Judith Johnson, who is organizing the ordination… Johnson predicted that would change. “New changes don’t come very quickly. It comes from the people,” she told Reuters.
The movement started with the ordination of seven women on the Danube River in Germany in 2002. Two of them, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger of Austria and Gisela Forster of Germany, will be ordaining the four priests and five deacons on the St. Lawrence. The two say they have been made bishops by Catholic bishops in good standing with Rome.
It doesn’t say who ordained them, either as ‘priests’ or as ‘bishops’.But in 2003, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict – excommunicated the “Danube Seven.”
Agreed. There are several indpendent groups that unforunately ordain women to the presbyterate, and are GLBT friendly.I think that we have no shortage of heretics who want their own way. As has been said many times, all heresy begins below the belt.
A) If this is true, then all of them, including the “Catholic bishops in good standing with Rome,” have automatically excommunicated themselves from the Church (I think the phrase is something like “latae sentia,” but I can’t remember), all of them, the “ordinands,” the “bishops,” and the theoretical bishops in “good standing” (excommunication pretty much puts you out of good standing).Here’s an article about it:
reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8723619
Supposedly, these female “bishops” were ordained “by Catholic bishops in good standing with Rome.”
The Holy See would be foolish to respond. All it would do would be to give this charade more publicity and encourage others. The last thing we need are some “media martyrs.”What Bishops are involved? I hope they and the women are all ex-communicated and the ex-communication is widely publicized.
Please give a link so that we can read the article for ourselves. It is probably a misunderstanding or fabrication since the Catholic Church has no authority to ordain women priests. (The responsum from the magisterium on this subject is on the Vatican web site)The headline of spiritdaily.com this morning tells about nine women being Ordained in the Catholic Church. What do you think?
www.spiritdaily.comPlease give a link so that we can read the article for ourselves. It is probably a misunderstanding or fabrication since the Catholic Church has no authority to ordain women priests. (The responsum from the magisterium on this subject is on the Vatican web site)