Sr. Vassa: There's no ontological impediment to priestesses
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...
Always glad to hear that another one of these conferences is to take place. I just wish that they would move the conference around the country each year, so that more homeschoolers -- who typically are chronically without spare money for luxuries such as cross-country travel -- might attend at least some of the presentations.
ReplyDeleteWhat if you could buy podcasts of the sessions for a small fee? We are hoping that this conference will catch on and be replicated across the country.
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