Is the male-only priesthood a discipline or essential to the nature of being a priest? Sr. Vassa (again unflinchingly taking up a contentious topic by climbing up the ladder to the highest platform and then jumping into the deep end head first) dives right in and says there is no reason beyond personal preference to not have female clergy. You know, when people ask me about women in priesthood, they say, 'Sister, why can't women be priests?' And I say, 'Women CAN be priests. We don't WANT them to be priests.' Because you see, God can do anything, and the Church, by divine authority, uh, can do anything, but, the Church doesn't want to - and that's a legitimate reason. What I don't like is when we TRY to pretend that there are other reasons for this, because it's legitimate not to want something, and there are reasons not to want this - right? - but, we shouldn't pretent that there's some... reason, that, for example, the maleness...
the cited spellings of names and seemingly curious new titles of our melkite bishops may mislead readers;
ReplyDeleteplease understand that it would probably be beneficial to us and others to leave these types of announcements to our eparchial communications office
thank you; God Bless!
I'd tell the "Holy Land Catholic Communications Centre." It is a direct cut and paste of their news story found here:
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They have the benefit of "pushing" news via RSS and updating their news section frequently. Antioch (and Newton for that matter) is a tad slower at publishing updates in English and there is no newsletter to subscribe to.