SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
There’s been another one of these things:
They risk being excommunicated by the Catholic Church but vow they won’t be stopped.
Bernadyne “Bernie” Sykora of St. Cloud and two other women were ordained as priests at a Mass by the Roman Catholic Womenpriests of the Midwest Region at 1 p.m. June 23 in St. Cloud.
“Bernie has been a main force behind the formation of the Mary Magdalene parish in St. Cloud,” said Mary Frances Smith, who was ordained a Roman Catholic Womanpriest in 2009.
“Bernie really believes in the cause of equality for women; she’s very strong in that way.”
Bishop Regina Nicolosi will preside at the event at Mary Magdalene, First Apostle, which is a parish that holds its services at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Cooper Avenue South.
“The women in the RCWP have decided that it’s time to roll up our sleeves and simply move forward,” Smith said of Sykora, an 80-year-old ordained deacon in the RCWP movement.
Roman Catholic Womenpriests maintains womens’ ordinations are “valid” but “illicit” (or against canon law), according to Nicolosi.
I forget. Did this writer say Roman Catholic or Roman Catholic.
Instead of posting yet another piece about how stupid and wrong this all is, since I’m sick to bloody death of writing them, I’m going to try a little thought experiment. But before I do that, let me emphasize that I know full well that the ordination of women to the priesthood is a serious break with Church tradition. I get it so don’t bother bringing it up and that’s not what I’m after here anyway.
Let’s go back fifty years or so and, since women’s ordination is a reality in that pseudo-ecclesial entity, let’s focus on the Episcopalians. An liberal Episcopal bishop, New York’s Paul Moore, say, has just returned from that House of Squishops meeting that refused to do anything meaningful about James Pike’s denial of the Christian faith.
Moore is scheduled to speak at some Episcopal seminary or other and a large percentage of the students he addresses are women. But when Moore takes questions following his speech, one woman after another stands up and excoriates him for his moral cowardice.
Does he not know what Pike preaches? Does he not care how Pike’s doctrines will affect the faithful? Will Paul Moore not stand up for the faith once delivered unto the saints? And if he won’t, then why should any Christian listen to him about anything at all?
January, 1973. The US Supreme Court invents a “right” to abortion out of whole cloth. The Catholic Church is in the forefront of loud and vehement opposition to this decision. But even louder and more vehement opposition comes from sizable numbers of Episcopal seminarians from General, Union, Virginia, EDS and other schools.
Every single one of them female.
Does anyone seriously believe that if doctrinaire leftism bordering on atheistic socialism was the rarest of rare exceptions rather than the rule among female Episcopal seminarians that the Episcopal Organization, or the rest of the Anglican Communion, for that matter, would ever have ordained women?
Me neither.
Contra History’s Greatest Monster, merely ordaining women qua women is not enough and is not and was never the issue. As far as the secular, non-religious culture and its chaplains are concerned, the one and only way to free your church from the taint of institutional sexism is to ordain women with correct opinions.
Put a woman in a pulpit who believes and teaches that Jesus Christ literally died for the sins of the world and literally rose to life again three days later, that faith in Him is the only way home to the Father and that things like homosexual sex, abortion and sex before and outside of marriage are sins, then, as far as the world is concerned, your church hasn’t ordained women at all.
They risk being excommunicated by the Catholic Church but vow they won’t be stopped.
Bernadyne “Bernie” Sykora of St. Cloud and two other women were ordained as priests at a Mass by the Roman Catholic Womenpriests of the Midwest Region at 1 p.m. June 23 in St. Cloud.
“Bernie has been a main force behind the formation of the Mary Magdalene parish in St. Cloud,” said Mary Frances Smith, who was ordained a Roman Catholic Womanpriest in 2009.
“Bernie really believes in the cause of equality for women; she’s very strong in that way.”
Bishop Regina Nicolosi will preside at the event at Mary Magdalene, First Apostle, which is a parish that holds its services at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Cooper Avenue South.
“The women in the RCWP have decided that it’s time to roll up our sleeves and simply move forward,” Smith said of Sykora, an 80-year-old ordained deacon in the RCWP movement.
Roman Catholic Womenpriests maintains womens’ ordinations are “valid” but “illicit” (or against canon law), according to Nicolosi.
I forget. Did this writer say Roman Catholic or Roman Catholic.
Instead of posting yet another piece about how stupid and wrong this all is, since I’m sick to bloody death of writing them, I’m going to try a little thought experiment. But before I do that, let me emphasize that I know full well that the ordination of women to the priesthood is a serious break with Church tradition. I get it so don’t bother bringing it up and that’s not what I’m after here anyway.
Let’s go back fifty years or so and, since women’s ordination is a reality in that pseudo-ecclesial entity, let’s focus on the Episcopalians. An liberal Episcopal bishop, New York’s Paul Moore, say, has just returned from that House of Squishops meeting that refused to do anything meaningful about James Pike’s denial of the Christian faith.
Moore is scheduled to speak at some Episcopal seminary or other and a large percentage of the students he addresses are women. But when Moore takes questions following his speech, one woman after another stands up and excoriates him for his moral cowardice.
Does he not know what Pike preaches? Does he not care how Pike’s doctrines will affect the faithful? Will Paul Moore not stand up for the faith once delivered unto the saints? And if he won’t, then why should any Christian listen to him about anything at all?
January, 1973. The US Supreme Court invents a “right” to abortion out of whole cloth. The Catholic Church is in the forefront of loud and vehement opposition to this decision. But even louder and more vehement opposition comes from sizable numbers of Episcopal seminarians from General, Union, Virginia, EDS and other schools.
Every single one of them female.
Does anyone seriously believe that if doctrinaire leftism bordering on atheistic socialism was the rarest of rare exceptions rather than the rule among female Episcopal seminarians that the Episcopal Organization, or the rest of the Anglican Communion, for that matter, would ever have ordained women?
Me neither.
Contra History’s Greatest Monster, merely ordaining women qua women is not enough and is not and was never the issue. As far as the secular, non-religious culture and its chaplains are concerned, the one and only way to free your church from the taint of institutional sexism is to ordain women with correct opinions.
Put a woman in a pulpit who believes and teaches that Jesus Christ literally died for the sins of the world and literally rose to life again three days later, that faith in Him is the only way home to the Father and that things like homosexual sex, abortion and sex before and outside of marriage are sins, then, as far as the world is concerned, your church hasn’t ordained women at all.
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