"Womenpriest" seeks ordination from MN bishop

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Then, one day as she was doing laundry and talking with her husband about frustrations with the church, she off-handedly said, “Well, I guess the only way we’ll find a church that’s meaningful to us is if we start one ourselves.”
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Well, that certainly says a lot.
 
Nothing new here. Just another protester/dissident trying to get the Church to do what she wants instead of aligning herself with what the Church teaches. Poor misguided soul.
 
Redig told him that she felt called to the priesthood and there were many people in need of more pastoral care.
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That’s like me being called to be a mother. That women needs some prayers big time.

God Bless,
Matt
 
There’s a shortage of nuns, too. Funny these folks are not petitioning to get into the convents.

Perhaps they are setting the bar too low. Why not “RC womenbishops” or “RC womenpopes”. Why fight authority when you can just sidestep it?

Congrats to Bishop Harrington. My old diocese looks like it might turn around, after all.

I better stop. I feel a bit uncharitable; being on this thread qualifies for not avoiding the near occasion of sin.

Timotheos
 
I feel a profound pity for this woman. She is so obsessed with her view of how things should be that she has lost touch with the reality of God’s will.

We all need to pray for her and the many Catholics that have followed the path of thinking that their opinion is more relevant than God’s truth.
 
KTRH’s poll question of the day is, “Is it time for the Catholic Church to allow women to become priests or deacons?”

At the moment, the no’s (69.85%) outnumber the yes’s (30.15%)
 
jay29 said:
Me too. Woman cannot be priests and that is the final answer. :cool:
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From an article by Robert McElvaine, history professor.
The bottom line is that none of the Church’s positions on women and sex come from the teachings of Jesus. All of them are the products of the very relativism that the current pope decries. The relativism of an earlier day has become the dogma of today.
A popular hymn asserts that the Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ. The truth, however, is that since the early centuries of the religion that took up the name of Christianity, the Church’s one foundation has been male insecurity and its consequent subordination of women. Peter may have been the rock upon which Jesus sought to build his Church, but the rock upon which those who built Christianity in the early centuries after Jesus was the misogyny of their societies. Benedict XVI needs to lead the Church in a true revolution: a circling back to the actual teachings of Jesus and away from the perversions of those teachings by the early Church Fathers and their successors.

During the second week of his papacy in 1978, John Paul I sensibly declared that God “is a Mother as well as a Father.”
 
Amolibri said:
From an article by Robert McElvaine, history professor. . . . During the second week of his papacy in 1978, John Paul I sensibly declared that God “is a Mother as well as a Father.”
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Yes, and God very promptly called John Paul I home, probably to discuss the matter with him.
 
Erich said:
KTRH’s poll question of the day is, “Is it time for the Catholic Church to allow women to become priests or deacons?”

At the moment, the no’s (69.85%) outnumber the yes’s (30.15%)
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This online poll also has lots of bias coming from the listeners to that station who are more likely to hit that webpage.

This is a tough situation for Bishop Harrington. He is handling it the best way possible and in a much better way than other bishops have done in similar situations. He is showing lots of compassion for her during this. According to the (present) rules he has to do what he has to do. He is not belittling her in the public square. This is the best way to do it.

There are many good women who would fit in well in a priestly ministry. Other denominations have shown this to be true and nothing to worry about. The time will come when the RCC will seriously consider this. Time at the Vatican does move slowly so it will probably not be in our generation.
 
NewUlm1976_2000 said:
This online poll also has lots of bias coming from the listeners to that station who are more likely to hit that webpage.

This is a tough situation for Bishop Harrington. He is handling it the best way possible and in a much better way than other bishops have done in similar situations. He is showing lots of compassion for her during this. According to the (present) rules he has to do what he has to do. He is not belittling her in the public square. This is the best way to do it.

There are many good women who would fit in well in a priestly ministry. Other denominations have shown this to be true and nothing to worry about. The time will come when the RCC will seriously consider this. Time at the Vatican does move slowly so it will probably not be in our generation.
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The Church has spoken on this matter - it will never consider this. From ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS:

Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) 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.

vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_22051994_ordinatio-sacerdotalis_en.html
 
NewUlm1976_2000 said:
There are many good women who would fit in well in a priestly ministry. Other denominations have shown this to be true and nothing to worry about. The time will come when the RCC will seriously consider this. Time at the Vatican does move slowly so it will probably not be in our generation.
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The Vatican will move very slowly 'til the end of time that for sure.

Quit giving them false hope !

Alot of Catholics don’t know that, first and foremost, Christ is the bridegroom of the Church, so that makes the Church His *bride *(take note…this is a feminine noun).

Now priests are male cuz they are in persona Christi . At every mass, Christ offers himself up as a sacrifice. Since Christ is not physically here, the priests are in the person of Christ to offer the sacrifice.

These are the reasons why priests have to be male.
 
How in the world can a woman act in persona Christi or an altar Christus? How does that work? How can a woman be married to a BRIDE? She can’t! It is not theologically sound to have female priests regardless of what “other churches” have done. Why don’t people get this? 🤷
 
There are many good women who would fit in well in a priestly ministry. Other denominations have shown this to be true and nothing to worry about. The time will come when the RCC will seriously consider this. Time at the Vatican does move slowly so it will probably not be in our generation.
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There are many good women who already are doing a lot of ministries that priests do, such as counseling, teaching, taking leadership roles in parishes/dioceses. We gals don’t need to be priests to do those things.

We women cannot be priests simply because the foremost duty of a priest is that of minister of the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. No one who is not validly ordained can confect the Eucharist, male or female. So no female who has been ordained in other churches is doing anything at their altars except doing what their men are doing–confecting nothing.

As others have pointed out, the Church has already “seriously considered” this issue, made a definitive statement about it, and that is that forever and ever, amen.
 
So no female who has been ordained in other churches is doing anything at their altars except doing what their men are doing–confecting nothing.
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There are more issues with this group than them pretending to be priests - as if that weren’t bad enough by itself.

If you look at the profiles of the women claiming to be “ordained” you will see that many of them associate themselves with new-age type mysticism - such as Reiki and healing-touch.

The fact of the matter is these people are the product of the dangerous thoughts and practices of the 60s & 70s counter culture.
 
orionsbelt said:
There are more issues with this group than them pretending to be priests - as if that weren’t bad enough by itself.

If you look at the profiles of the women claiming to be “ordained” you will see that many of them associate themselves with new-age type mysticism - such as Reiki and healing-touch.

The fact of the matter is these people are the product of the dangerous thoughts and practices of the 60s & 70s counter culture.
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:confused: :confused: dangerous? Is the charismatic movement also “dangerous” to you? Just curious.
 
Amolibri said:
:confused: :confused: dangerous? Is the charismatic movement also “dangerous” to you? Just curious.
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Is the charismatic movement associated with the 60s & 70s counter-culture? Not in my mind.

The ideas I’m thinking about that I consider dangerous revolve around relativism and merging of new-age mysticism with the Holy Spirit.

Do you equate/associate Rieki and similar stuff with the charismatic movement? If so, then I do have a problem with that.
 
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