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 next meeting of the Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue will take place on the island of Malta in October this year and will discuss the issues of environment and euthanasia."
ReplyDeleteWe are still talking to them because about 100 years ago (1920) certain Orthodox became a little too enamored with "dialogue" as a thing-in-itself in which the Holy Spirit works His Love to "fix" Christendom. In other words, certain Orthodox bought into secular presuppositions about man, history, and the Church. Until they repent of this error, these quite inane talks about "the environment" will continue...
These Anglicans are in the process of redefining marriage and sin. They are preparing a "liturgy" to "celebrate" change if gender!!!! Shame shame and shame again on the hirelings who abandon apostolic faith and dialogue with the enemies of Christ.
ReplyDeleteI have a correction for the Anglican representatives:
ReplyDeleteThe pseudo meeting that happened in Crete....was neither holy.....nor great.
Notice the Anglican Church in North America talks to the Orthodox about God. Something the Anglicans in the above, uh, meeting, can't even touch. No comparison. Bishop Kallistos, who I admire, is a good English subject.
ReplyDeleteFather, your headline couldn't be better. How do they have a dialogue with a female priest? Why would either side want to have a dialogue if both sides know their respective positions on the very idea of female priests?
ReplyDeleteScandalous.
ReplyDeleteIn a few years time, be sure that the Church of England will have acceded to British Government demands to have same-sex "marriages" in church. These so-called dialogues are a complete waste of time, although Kallistos Ware is not going to change his ideas at his age. When he is no longer on the stage, I can't see any successor on the Orthodox side.
ReplyDeleteFew years? More like a few months. The Church of England is sinking faster than the titanic.
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